My parents migrated to the UK from the West Indies in the 1960’s as part of the Windrush Generation.

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Having been brought up in social housing and watching my parents struggle to pay bills and buy food throughout my childhood, I was determined to not be in the same situation.

I completed an apprenticeship in Lift Engineering in the 90’s and worked my way up through the grades to become a service manager. Thereafter, I became a lift consultant for an international real estate solution company and went on to start up my own lift consultancy company which is now in its third year of trading.