SPEAKER PROFILE

Lee McQueen

Entrepreneur and Director of Raw Talent Academy

Theatre: Entrepreneurs Forum

 

Lee will talk about his story, growing up, working hard, managing a multimillion pound business in the corporate world to winning ‘The Apprentice’, building a business for Lord Sugar and then building his own own business.

 

'Raw Talent' himself, Lee has had a successful career in both Recruitment and Advertising, went on to win 'The Apprentice' and now launches a business to find and develop 'Raw Talent'. Lee previously worked in Recruitment and spent 10 years in this industry, 6 of which were with Capita Resourcing.

 

After working his way through the business, he ended his career at Capita as the Sales and Delivery Manager, heading up the IT recruitment division. On leaving (Jan 2008), the division turned over £32million and had around 30 staff; 22 of which were revenue generating. Lee also set up an academy within his division, designed to recruit staff with limited experience and using strong training and development methods to develop them into fully fledged sales consultants deployed within the business. In 2008, Lee beat 20,000 candidates to land a role with Lord Sugar by winning The Apprentice!

 

Lee says: “I learnt so much from the gruelling 12 week process and to win it was outstanding. To set out your goals and achieve them is incredibly rewarding. The Apprentice tests you in every way, stamina, business acumen, team work, confidence it was a great experience. Most recently I set up along with Simon Sugar a business for Lord Sugar called Amscreen, a digital media business. As Development Director I was responsible for the development and integration of the business both commercially and internally to enable Amscreen to become the UK market leader in digital signage."

 

"I was primarily involved with building a team of sales professionals and the development of new and existing customers for both the site acquisition and the advertising sales for the business; ensuring that Amscreen grew the network and the media that is displayed on it."

 

"Today my passion is about helping others to realise their potential and provide them with a platform to go on and achieve in business. Having recruited sales people for most of my career I’m convinced that every business should have a Sales Academy.”

 

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