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Hustler, who built a £1bn business

It's not a sign of a mid-life crisis, he insists, but a wedding present from his wife who he married in August. He just has one more test to pass to get his motorcycle licence, then he can hop on the bike and whizz around London for meetings. The boss and co-founder of money exchange firm Rational FX, which reported revenues of more than £1bn ($1.3bn) last year, has a life that's worlds apart from his parents and grandparents. They were forced to flee Uganda in 1972 when dictator Idi Amin gave the Asian population just 90 days to leave the country. They came to the UK with just £50 between them," says the softly-spoken Mr Davdra. "My grandfather had his own tailoring shop, but they had to leave everything behind." His family pulled together and bought a house in Harrow, north London, with his dad securing a job as clerk, and later as a financial controller, at a foreign exchange broker. Image copyrightRATIONALFXImage captionParesh Davdra co-founded Rational...

Hustler, who built a £1bn business

It's not a sign of a mid-life crisis, he insists, but a wedding present from his wife who he married in August. He just has one more test to pass to get his motorcycle licence, then he can hop on the bike and whizz around London for meetings. The boss and co-founder of money exchange firm Rational FX, which reported revenues of more than £1bn ($1.3bn) last year, has a life that's worlds apart from his parents and grandparents. They were forced to flee Uganda in 1972 when dictator Idi Amin gave the Asian population just 90 days to leave the country. They came to the UK with just £50 between them," says the softly-spoken Mr Davdra. "My grandfather had his own tailoring shop, but they had to leave everything behind." His family pulled together and bought a house in Harrow, north London, with his dad securing a job as clerk, and later as a financial controller, at a foreign exchange broker. Image copyrightRATIONALFXImage captionParesh Davdra co-founded Rational...