Alan Sugar is a British entrepreneur and television personality. He is also known for his many business ventures, especially those involving the computer industry. In the 1980s he was a co-founder of Amstrad computer company. In 1990 he sold his share in the company to raise capital for a new venture, which turned out to be a consortium of companies known as Orange Telecom
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This company, now called EE, is the largest telecoms network operator in Britain and has over 25 million customers. In 2005 he founded Amstrad again as a new company, specifically for manufacturing PC peripherals under the Amstrad brand name. In 2001, Alan Sugar was awarded an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University in Edinburgh.
He has been widely reported as being one of the richest people in the UK with a net worth of £1 billion as of 2008.