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ounder and CEO of Tropic Skincare, Susie Ma, 35, was born in China and moved to Australia aged six. At 13 she relocated with her mother to London. To help pay the bills she spent her weekends selling homemade body scrub — her grandmother’s recipe — at Greenwich Market, and Tropic Skincare was born. After studying economics at UCL, she began her career at Citigroup working in foreign exchange trading. Realising that finance was not for her, in 2011 she appeared on The Apprentice, finishing third but securing an investment of £200,000 from Lord Sugar in exchange for 50 per cent of her company. She bought the shares back in 2023 and now owns 100 per cent. She lives in London with her partner,
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