Syed Ahmed

Syed Ahmed (Bengali: সৈয়দ আহমেদ; born 17 September 1974) is a Bangladeshi-born British entrepreneur, businessman and television personality. He is the founder and CEO of the British design and manufacturing hand dryer company SAVortex. He is best known for being a contestant in the 2006 series of The Apprentice, where he was fired in Week 10.

Background

Ahmed was born in Sylhet, Bangladesh. When he was nine months old, he moved with his parents to England and was brought up in East London in a devout Muslim family. He attended the Sir John Cass Redcoat School in Stepney from the age of 11 to 17 achieving 7 GCSEs. He then attended the Hammersmith College, where he achieved a BTEC in Business and Finance. He later managed restaurants, including the Titanic, part of the White Starline Group, owned by Marco Pierre White. He was in the Air Training Corps and dreamed of becoming an RAF pilot but decided to go into business instead.

Ahmed is currently the CEO of SAVortex, which specialises in high-speed, energy efficient hand dryers. Ahmed's development of the SAVortex technology was shown in an hour-long documentary, Hot Air, broadcast on Sky. Ahmed initially financed the business himself. Ahmed was a director of the IT recruitment consultancy firm IT People until May 2006, and a director of Magenta Partnerships Limited from June 2006 until February 2007.

The Apprentice (UK series two)

Series Two of The Apprentice (UK) is a British reality television series, that was broadcast in the UK during 2006, on BBC Two from 22 February to 10 May 2006, maintaining its timeslot within Wednesday evenings. Owing to it being a second series of the UK version, Lord Alan Sugar (then Sir Alan at the time of broadcast) reprised his role as the boss, with Nick Hewer and Margaret Mountford returning as his advisers and team observers. The series was won by Michelle Dewberry.

In addition to a second series being commissioned by the BBC, the network also introcuded a companion discussion program called The Apprentice: You're Fired! which was aired on BBC Three alongside the series, interviewing all the candidates who were fired each week, including both the winner and the runner-up at the end.

The series also appeared on Australian TV network, Channel Seven, under the title of Sir Alan Sugar: The Apprentice, so as to distinguish it from the US version, and premiered on 27 August 2008, during a 9:30pm timeslot. Despite heavy promotion of the series during Seven's Olympic coverage, the series only rated 583,000 viewers nationally, which was third for its timeslot, so Seven shifted the programme to a later slot of 10:30pm the following week, but were unable to stop the ratings decreasing. The series also aired on Australian pay TV channel, UKTV.

Syed Ahmed (politician)

Syed Ahmed (6 March 1945 – 27 September 2015) was an Indian politician, author and a member of the Congress Party. He was sworn in as the sixteenth Governor of Manipur on 16 May 2015, but only served four months before dying in office on 27 September. During his tenure as Manipur Governor, Manipur Tenants, Visitors and Migrant Workers Bill, 2015 was passed by the Manipur Assembly on 15 March.

He died of cancer on 27 September 2015 at Lilavati hospital, Mumbai, India. He was survived by his wife and son.

Early life

Ahmed held two master's degrees in both Hindi and English and a doctorate in Urdu. He has written an autobiography, Pagdandi se Shahar Tak. His other works include Maktal se Manzil, Kafas se Chaman and Jange-Azaadi Me Urdu Shayari.

Political career

Ahmed joined the Indian National Congress in 1977. He was elected to the Vidhan Sabha five times as a representative of the Nagpada constituency in Mumbai. He also served as a state minister in Maharashtra.

On 26 August 2011, Indian President Pratibha Patil appointed Ahmed as the eighth Governor of the northern state of Jharkhand. He was chosen to succeed M. O. H. Farook, who was appointed Governor of Kerala on the same day by President Patil. Syed Ahmed was sworn in as the Governor of Jharkhand on 4 September 2011. Ahmed was administered the oath of office by acting Jharkhand Chief Justice Prakash Chandra Tatiya at the state Raj Bhavan. Dr Syed Ahmad was shifted to Manipur in May 2015.

Syed Ahmed (disambiguation)

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