John David Caudwell (born 7 October 1952) is a British billionaire businessman who founded the now defunct mobile phone retailer Phones 4u. He also invests in fashion, real estate and other industries, and chairs Caudwell Children, a children's charity, and Caudwell LymeCo, promoting chronic Lyme disease beliefs in the UK. According to the Sunday Times Rich List in 2022, Caudwell is worth £1.58 billion. On the Forbes 2022 list of the world's billionaires, he was ranked #984 with a net worth of US$2.8 billion. From Wikipedia