Adam Kamani

Kamani's grandfather Abdullah Kamani left Kenya in the 1960s and moved to the UK with his wife and four children.[3] He created Boohoo, a fashion business in 2006 which became the foundation for Adam's interest in the business world.[4]

Kamani started his career by working for Boohoo in 2006.[5] In 2012, Kamani and his brother, Umar, launched a firm known as Pretty Little Thing with focus on the fashion accessories market.[6] The fashion business attracted the likes of Kylie Jenner, Miley Cyrus, Rita Ora, Nicki Minaj and other celebrities. Pretty Little Thing was later purchased by Boohoo in December 2016.[7]

Kamani also founded Kamani Property Group in New York with focus on the property market there. He became the CEO of the company in 2016.[8] In 2017, Kamani founded KM Capital, a funding platform that aims to support young, dynamic businesses with a key focus on tech start-ups.[8]

On 19 April 2018 Kamani was named Young Property Professional Of The Year at the North-West Business Insiders Young Professionals Awards with the Manchester based panel of judges saying he was ‘the person most likely to really change the city.[9]

In 2018, Kamani ran a social media competition to give away a £20,000 home makeover which had more than 2,000 entries.[10] The prize was won by a man who was forced to live in a bungalow after he had had an operation to remove a tumour from his spine.[10]