Wolfgang Douglas

Wolfgang‘s unique motivation is described by many to be an unstoppable force of positivity in self-driven growth in the rebranded use of his Romany Gypsy ethnic background that has become a trademark staple to his backstory in recent times both politically and in business. He explains extraordinary challenge’s he has personally had to overcome and how his community continues to thrive despite these social, political and business hurdles effecting their efforts. Wolfgang tells his story as an outsider author that has been forced by the nature of his life to self-develop unique mechanisms to break glass ceilings and to create new opportunities, many times from scratch in a manner that has become a lifestyle and business ethics mindset to compete with what he considers to be a fight for survival attribute to become the influential and financial success that he has cemented his legacy through his achievements.

Wolfgang was born in St John Wood London, living in Hertfordshire for the first 15yrs of his life. He left school at the age of just 10yrs of age as is common in the Romany community to apprentice their fathers in business. His early participation in his families third generation wholesale business was based in Enfield North London, where he worked to also create his own brands along side and infact opened his first warehouse by the time he was just 16yrs of age with over a million pound turnover. This is apart of a generational wealth of knowledge, business practice and ethos of hard working practices that has lead to the development of successful progress that Wolfgang continues to build on.

At the age of 17yrs, Wolfgang was married within his family community, and at the age of 21yrs he decided to immigrate to Dubai UAE in the footsteps of other family members that had already established business abroad. From the UAE Wolfgang created several large scale businesses regionally and was involved in many international business ventures as well. Turning over hundreds of millions of dollars annually, Wolfgangs brand turned into a huge success story for the British expat community, promoting British roots focused support working with groups such as UK Trade & Investments and many other trade delegations as aligned, Wolfgang managed to continue this level of growth in the region until is retirement back to the UK in 2019. Wolfgang had been recognised by countless interviews, publications reporting and articles of achievement at trade fairs and conferences across the Gulf Region, whereas as financial markets continued to become increasingly volatile and due to personal reasons he decided to return home.

Once he settled back in the UK, based from South Kensington London, Wolfgang once again decided to create further ventures of business activities from the UK in fields of expertise that he was very passionate about. This has lead to the successful development of his latest project (Romanichal Asset Liquidation Specialists (R.A.L.S.) that covers a variety of industries and business activities that have been built around his unique platform of experience with trade results like no other in their respective fields creating new benchmarks of success across the board.

Creative investment and development of trading businesses, is and always will be the foremost priority of Wolfgangs natural entrepreneurship ethos which continues to grow with every step forward.

On a personal vantage, Wolfgang Douglas is a family man of three children practicing the Christian faith, his conservative beliefs have lead him into business with a specific viewpoint that also led to him volunteering a large amount of time to many community projects including teaching religious education to children as well as other religious programs related to these topic. 

Wolfgang is heavily involved in the #FreeAlbertDouglas campaign as he was a personally effected party to what has become a national headline story across the mainstream media including many international news outlets across the world on the subject of Human Rights Violations of British Citizens. Working closely with non-profit organisations such as Detained in Dubai as well as alongside the British Foreign Common Wealth Development Office (UK FCDO) in providing witnessed commentary and extensive media coverage in highlighting these issues as related in what has been a key focus of Wolfgang’s campaigning efforts, and continues to be one of his largest contributions towards achieving international awareness. Wolfgang has collaborated extensively with British government agencies and members of parliament to promote & facilitate the implementation of international Human Rights laws on behalf of his own cause as well as many others aligned with similar movements, including actions such as his self funded Special Rapporteurs at the United Nations (UN) Human Rights Council, international trade group boycotts and applications of sanctions. Wolfgang has been responsible for the arrangements of large scale peaceful demonstration protests across london such as London’s speakers corner and Parliament Square as well as being responsible in leading international trade and financial boycotts events of scale as related to Human Rights Abuses. 

Wolfgang is a recognised spokesperson on behalf of his own organisations and ethnic minorities related to British Romany Gypsies and Travellers. His extensive knowledge and routes have also been a source of support and inspiration for many influential figures both within government and in business.

Wolfgang holds a wide range of organisational positions of leadership, including investment into property, businesses and development projects across the country. He is renowned for his leadership abilities in bringing together pooled resources and expertise of exceptional experience that has been proven to contribute positively in all areas of involvement in practice. Wolfgang also offers mentorship and has been a public speaker at many events around the topics of business development and generation. Wolfgang continues to provide support initiatives and programs support to empower young entrepreneurs to participate in business and create opportunities.