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Timothy Campbell is an English businessman best known as the winner of the first series of the British version of ''
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in which contestants then battled to win a £100,000-a-year job working for businessman
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. Campbell, a
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graduate in
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, worked as a Senior Planner within the Strategy and Service Development (formally Marketing and Planning) directorate of
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before applying to appear on the show.


''The Apprentice''

Campbell appeared as a contestant in
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of ''The Apprentice'' in February 2005 and was hired by Sir Alan Sugar in the final episode, screened in May 2005. Campbell was project manager for his team twice in the show: in weeks 1 and 4. An hour-long documentary about Campbell's first year in his new job, entitled ''The Apprentice: Tim in the Firing Line'', was aired on 19 February 2006, a few days before the launch of
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. Campbell replaced
Claude Littner Claude Littner (born 4 May 1949) is an American-born British business executive and the former chairman of Viglen, Powerleague, ASCO and Azzuri Communications. He is also the Deputy Chairman of Blacks Leisure and former chief executive of Tot ...
as Lord Sugar's aide for the show's 16th series due to injuries sustained by Littner as a result of a cycling accident.


Post-''Apprentice''

After his victory, Campbell joined Sugar's company
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on a £100,000 salary. He became Project Director of Amstrad's new Health & Beauty division. In autumn 2006, Campbell held a series of one-to-one advice sessions for budding entrepreneurs organised by the
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's Business & Intellectual Property Centre. In January 2007, he made a guest appearance in the special edition programme ''
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'', in order to raise money for
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. He joined the contestants after actor
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left the show early. Campbell was kept on at Amstrad after the end of his original 12-month contract, but in March 2007, after two years at the company, he left to set up a perfume business but this was later abandoned. Lord Sugar said Campbell had been a "great asset". Campbell met public affairs consultant Richard Morris (who later founded the Heropreneurs charity) and together they co-founded Bright Ideas Trust. The pair were later joined by Paul Humphries. In July 2007 Campbell became a Social Enterprise Ambassador as part of a British Government initiative that aims to apply modern business solutions to social and environmental problems. The programme is led by the Social Enterprise Coalition and supported by the Office of the Third Sector, a Government department responsible for charities, co-operatives, voluntary and community groups. It was announced in the 2012 New Years Honours List that Campbell was to be made a Member of the Most Excellent
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(MBE) for Services to Enterprise Culture. Since February 2012, Campbell has been a member of Estate Office Property Consultants, a boutique London property investment and development agency, where he focuses on investments and acquisitions for High Net Worth Individuals and organisations seeking prime property opportunities. In 2016, Campbell co-founded Marketing Runners Ltd with Derin Cag, a bespoke
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agency in London, where their clients to date include
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. In 2022, Campbell took Claude Littner's seat as an advisor for Lord Alan Sugar. Tim was the first ever winner of the BBC One business-based reality TV series in 2005.


Personal life

In 2013, Campbell became chair of the governing body of
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, the school that he attended as a child., January 2014


See also

* The Apprentice (British series 1) *
Saira Khan Saira Khan (born 15 May 1970) is an English television personality. She was a contestant on the first series of ''The Apprentice'' in 2005, in which she finished as the runner-up. From 2012 to 2017, Khan co-presented '' The Martin Lewis Money ...


References


External links


Bright Ideas TrustTim Campbell - ''Inspiring Entrepreneur'' video
{{DEFAULTSORT:Campbell, Tim People educated at St Bonaventure's Catholic School Alumni of Middlesex University The Apprentice (British TV series) candidates The Apprentice (franchise) winners 1979 births English businesspeople English people of Jamaican descent Living people People from Forest Gate 2005 in British television Members of the Order of the British Empire