An absolute honour to take part in the Festival of Remembrance last night at the @RoyalAlbertHall #LestWeForget
Peter Kelly 🦅
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Peter Kelly 🦅
@iampeterkelly
Founder CEO & NatWest Great British Entrepreneur of the Year Awards Winner | Royal Marines Commando Officer | Featured Forbes, BBC, Telegraph | #CPFC
Wrexham, Wales
Joined January 2015
- One of the proudest moments of my career, this photo was taken by a member of the audience last night, what a view🫡 #LestWeForget #RemembanceDay
- I am far from infallible but I just want people I love and care about have the best possible opportunity to be okay.
- Replying to @davembruceYes I understand this, I am however just a driver of an ambulance and not nearly as trained as a technician so referring to myself 👌
- Had the Pleasure of meeting @alexandramusic on Saturday, there must be a good caption for this photo..
- Replying to @NealRussell17I am in reserves now mate so I don’t qualify for most things. (Housing, medical etc). All will be okay
- Replying to @iampeterkellyOver the period of unemployment I never felt more worthless, I was spiralling in to debt and I had no purpose. Rejoining wasn’t an option because the Corps was full due to the intake after the Royal Marines Commando School TV program (That I was ironically a part of)
- Replying to @iampeterkellyLife changed rapidly, from being an instructor at Commando Training Centre to lining up at the job centre to collect my dole money. I quickly realised that the transition would be much harder than I ever imagined.
- Replying to @iampeterkellyLow and behold, this meeting created a £300k investment for our cause and all the pain we went through became experience, lessons learned (few of many more to come). 8 months later, imployable was born.
- Replying to @iampeterkellyEventually I was employed by an Ex Army Captain to as a digital project manager. A job I thoroughly enjoyed. I was lucky enough to manage some exciting projects for the likes of Louis Vuitton and RAC and loads of startups.
- Replying to @iampeterkellyMy time unemployed left deep scars, I was hearing more and more about service people committing suicide, even a few of my friends I knew all there was to know about the app world, why couldn’t I be the one to fix it, right the wrongs I had and create something meaningful
- Replying to @iampeterkellyI could have stayed there, been very successful and earned a huge amount of money. But once again I got the itch and I needed to scratch it. Once again I threw caution to the wind and risked it all.
- Replying to @iampeterkellyIn 2018 I got the opportunity to give a talk at the Plymouth Area Business Council. An opportunity I wasn’t going to squander. I gave an empowering speech about the future of work and how the UK was doing a massive disservice, not just to veterans but all disadvantaged people
- Replying to @iampeterkellySo we had some drawings on napkins that I redrew in a sketch book and went about making it a reality. We asked friends and family for investment and gave them shares in the company, we managed to raise £20k (those people are still shareholders today).