Jai Singh

Jai has almost 30 years’ of business experience in helping small and mid-sized UK companies and large corporates grow, advising them globally, not just while working for an international bank for a decade but, over the last 20 years, also in small advisory companies (including his own), to service clients strategically. Jai operated with limited budgets and resource constraints.

He financed his education at the University of Pennsylvania with debt and scholarship, which he paid back over10 years. As a married man, having raised two children, who are now in British universities, he understands the pains and challenges of parents in East Thanet trying to create a future for themselves and their children under tremendous budgetary constraints.

It is this lived experience of Jai, his previous jobs, and business-friendly and agenda of inclusive growth, joint up thinking and experience in operating successfully with constrained budgets with SME’s that he would bring to East Thanet. He would help create an environment for higher paying jobs, rejuvenate the port, winter gardens, support Manston, improve affordable housing, sanitation and shift optimisation, clean beaches and allocate the budget towards more GP surgeries and urgent treatment centres.

He has a sense of fairness and believes in inclusiveness and growth for all, which is seen in him having played representative county cricket in the over-50 championships (amongst the highest batting averages in 2022 County Championship).

He still plays Saturday league cricket when he can and is proud to be a member of the Lord’s Taverners, the charity that brings sport to disadvantaged and disabled children, providing aspiration and growth for a society facing unprecedented challenges, both in Thanet and throughout the nation.

He speaks conversational Italian and can also speak Hindi, Urdu and Bengali