When he was at his lowest point, Ashley Bailey remembers being awake at 3am, frantically hunting for cheaper nappies and baby formula, unsure how he would make it financially until the end of the month.
Ashley, 40, who was raised in Accrington, Lancashire, said he did not come from a privileged background, but was driven to succeed and worked his way up through sales and tech before entering the high-stakes start-up world.
The tech entrepreneur spent his time building, scaling, and exiting businesses, landing global partnerships and gaining recognition in the US.
He was living in Didsbury, Manchester, when he met his wife, former Irish pop singer Ciara Newell Bailey, on a train.
“She lived in London and I lived in Manchester and we met when we ended up sitting next to each other on a train,” he said. “I was going back home after a meeting in London and she was going to Manchester for a gig. We kept in contact and about 18 months later, we got together.”
