Lord Digby Jones

Business magnate Lord Digby Jones KT is an influential keynote speaker and business speaker. Lord Digby Jones is now the Chairman of Triumph Motorcycles, Lord Jones began his illustrious business career in corporate law, specialising in mergers and acquisitions as well as management buyouts within the West Midlands. After a spell at KPMG as Vice Chairman of Corporate Finance, Digby was appointed Chairman of the West Midland Region of the CBI and in the process became the first serving regional Chairmans to become the Director-General of the group.

After Digby’s tenure with the CBI had finished, he went onto advise firms including Ford, Deloitte, JCB and Barclays Capital in both finance and futurism trends to come. Digby entered the political environment when new roles were created within Gordon Brown’s administration. Taking the post of Minister of State for Trade and Investment, Lord Jones overlooked the training and education needed in order to combat the demands of global competition.

Since then Lord Digby Jones has gone onto to serve as Non-Executive Chairman and Director for a number of companies in a diverse array of corporate sectors including quarry aggregates and independent radio. Taking on the role of business guru Sir John Harvey-Jones, Digby has helped medium size businesses break out into new markets, prepare for the future and realise their full in BBC2's The New Troubleshooter.

A thought provoking and highly sought after keynote speaker and futurist speaker, Lord Digby Jones is a pre-eminent authority on corporate market placement and competitiveness in the future. Mixing facts and anecdotes, Lord Jones’ humorous delivery of talks as a business speaker makes for fantastic interaction with the audience, making him an ideal personality to host an event or conference.