Adam Kamani

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.

In 2018, Kamani ran a social media competition to give away a £20,000 home makeover which had more than 2,000 entries. 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.

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. In 2017, Kamani founded KM Capital, a funding platform that aims to support young, dynamic businesses with a key focus on tech start-ups.

Kamani started his career by working for Boohoo in 2006. In 2012, Kamani and his brother, Umar, launched a firm known as Pretty Little Thing with focus on the fashion accessories market. 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.

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