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Get the Job You Really Want

James Caan is one of the UK’s most successful and dynamic
entrepreneurs, and has been building and selling businesses
since 1985.

After dropping out of school at sixteen and starting his first
business in a Pall Mall broom cupboard, armed with little more
than charm and his father’s advice, Caan went on to make his
fortune in the recruitment industry, founding the Alexander
Mann Group, which grew to a turnover of £130 million. He also
co-founded executive headhunting firm Humana International,
growing it to 147 offices across thirty countries in six years.
Caan graduated from Harvard Business School in 2003, and
went on to set up private equity firm Hamilton Bradshaw.
Based in Mayfair, Hamilton Bradshaw specializes in buyouts,
venture capital and turnarounds in the recruitment sector, as
well as real estate investments and development opportunities
in both the UK and Europe.
A winner of PriceWaterhouseCoopers Entrepreneur of the Year
and BT Enterprise of the Year award, Caan joined the panel of the
BBC’s Dragons’ Den in 2007. He is a regular in the national and
business press, he advises various government programmes,
and he initiates philanthropic projects via the James Caan
Foundation.