About Me
Ajaz Ahmed

Entrepreneur : Adviser : Non-Exec : Chairman
NO-NONSENSE.  NO JARGON.  TO THE POINT.
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A short summary about me - I'm a company advisor, a business speaker and I write a column for Retail Week. I help small and medium sized companies, but I am also an experienced Exec Officer, Non-Exec and Chairman of FTSE & AIM companies.

I'm best known for being the founder of Freeserve which was once the UK's largest Internet Company. I’m in the 'Yorkshire Business Power 100,’ and I sit on the Advisory Board at the University of Huddersfield Business School.

My eureka moment for Freeserve came when nobody in PC World could tell me how to get on to the Internet. Eventually, Dixons agreed to launch Freeserve in Sept 1998, and it became the UK's largest ISP 3 months later, we sold Freeserve to France Telecom three years after the launch for £1.6bn. You can read the Freeserve story, "Make lots of money by giving it away." Part one & Part two.

My 'Cut the Cr*p, No-Nonsense, Business & Motivational Talks’ are popular because people remember the message many years later. It all started when I got fed up of listening to so-called 'experts & gurus' talking, CR*P! 

I'm the Chairman at Quba, which is a large web and technology agency that builds big enterprise level websites for big companies.

The Queen has awarded me a 'British Empire Medal’ BEM, and if you want to know anything more about me or my business talks, please email me and let's have a chat.

​You can also read some of my thoughts on my blog page, and look at some pictures of me here. Thank you for taking the time to visit my website, and I look forward to talking to you soon.
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CTC ➤ Quba ➤ JustStrong ➤ University of Huddersfield
➤ LCF Law ➤ Legal365 ➤ Browzar
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​NO-NONSENSE.  NO JARGON.  TO THE POINT.
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