Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones

Topics:

• Business
• Entrepreneurs
• Food & Wine
• Marketing & Branding
• Politics

The winner of two annual Entrepreneur Awards, Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is a classic entrepreneur with the “anything is possible” attitude to everything he approaches.  He is an inspiration to others and is an excellent conference keynote or after dinner speaker, and awards host.

The Beginning

Wilfred Emmanuel-Jones is, in his words, ‘a poor boy, done good’.  He was born in Jamaica and following his parents move to the UK in the 50s, was raised in inner city Birmingham.  Unqualified but ambitious and persistent, he talked his way into television becoming a producer/director for the BBC. 

BBC & Celebrity Chefs

He is credited with bringing many of the top celebrity chefs to the small screen including Gordon Ramsay, Antony Worrall-Thompson, Brian Turner and James Martin, before founding a food and drink marketing company in London. 

The Black Farmer Label

Wilfred subsequently fulfilled a lifelong ambition in purchasing a small farm in Devon, and has been responsible for one of the most successful food launches of recent times in the UK with his own range of meat products under The Black Farmer® label.

Flavours without Frontiers – the promise offered by his products also goes some way to sum up his personality.  Neither he nor his products will be confined by race, convention or tradition.  Wilfred’s strong opinions on issues such as rural affairs, justice for small producers and giving ethnic minorities more opportunity have driven much media attention in recent times. 

The Black Farmer launched a rural scholarship scheme through which young people from inner city communities are given the opportunity to experience what it is really like to live and work in the rural community.  This scheme was the subject of a Channel 4 Documentary which is aired regularly.  In 2007 and 2008 Wilfred worked with the Royal Agricultural College in Cirencester to run his City Farmers scheme.

Politics

In 2006 Wilfred was selected to represent the new Chippenham constituency for the Conservative party.  He is hoping to be the next MP for Chippenham and to play a major part in the future of British politics.  He believes that the political parties in the UK have a long way to go to encourage black people into their parties and those with political ambition have a high mountain to climb. But with the inspiration of Barack Obama's success, Wilfred's political journey is likely to be an interesting one! 

Corporate Speaker

Whether talking on marketing and food, entrepreneurism or people opportunities, Wilfred is excellent.  He delivers conference keynote speeches as well as being an after dinner speaker and awards host.

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