Alvin Sillitoe

Alvin Sillitoe, aka the Wild Jeweller, creates the world's most personalised engagement rings starting with an African sourced rough jewel. He is a gemstone explorer and in his spare time a writer, waging war on any force brave enough to go up against Africa’s artisanal gemstone miners - an underrated workforce that has intrigued him since 1996. He is a former private equity mining representative and a London stockbroker who raised capital for AIM, FTSE 250 and Nasdaq listed companies. Before that, he consulted on African gemstone exploration and mining projects, including leading the team in 2001 that discovered Ethiopia's first commercial sapphire deposit. Born in Lusaka, Zambia and inspired by a fist-sized emerald his late father held up to the sunlight as a boy, he began operating his first gemstone mine in Zambia at the ripe age of 21. Today, with over 20 years’ experience in the complete jewellery cycle… from the mine to the bride, you’ll find him creating bespoke engagement rings in the middle of Hatton Garden, London’s premier jewellery district.

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