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''Stephen Fear'' (born 27 August 1953) is an English entrepreneur and businessman with an established property empire and business interests in industries including green technology, I.T., care homes, hotels and manufacturing. Fear is also notable for being Entrepreneur in Residence at the British Library, a position formerly held by the late Dame Anita Roddick and for receiving a Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA) from the University of West England on 24 July 2013. In October 2014 Fear was made a patron of the charity for the homeless, Emmaus. Recently, Fear received a lifetime achievement award presented by The Bristol Post and also is a member of the Bristol Commission on Education and Skills. == Early life == Fear was born in Bristol and brought up on a Council Estate in a suburb of the city. He was the youngest of four children, having three older half-sisters. He attended Henbury School in Bristol for the first six weeks of his education; however, his formal education only lasted for a total of approximately three years including attending school in Malmesbury for about a year from age twelve. Fear is essentially self-educated through his lifelong love of reading which is one of the reasons he supports the British Library and the general retention and expansion of libraries throughout both the UK and the developing world. Fear is passionate about an intercontinental library system being created throughout Africa where access to books is currently limited. Fear started in business at the age of 15, having left school, by creating a company called Easy Clean, which specialised in commercial oven cleaning. Showing very early entrepreneurial skills, Fear bought a cleaning formula from an American company advertising in the Exchange & Mart, originally intended for domestic use and adapted the product himself in a lock-up garage and later selling commercial cleaning services to large bakeries. His first major business deal was achieved over the phone using the now famous Red Telephone Box on the Council Estate in Bristol where he was brought up. leading to the nickname - "The Phonebox Millionaire". Fear later sold this business for £100,000〔 and invested the money in property, which was to be the start of his property empire. Later with business partner Arne Naess, (the late Norwegian shipping magnet and mountaineer, famous for having led the first Norwegian expedition to Mount Everest in 1985 with British mountaineer Sir Chris Bonington CBE), Fear invested in many businesses in the UK and America; however, the bulk of his career has been spent in the property and corporate sectors focusing on property investment and development as well as company takeovers, mergers and acquisitions, resulting in a multifaceted business empire under the umbrella Fear Group, which he runs with son and business partner Leon Fear. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stephen Fear」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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