I worked for Ray Kelvin at Ted Baker. I wish I’d stood up to him | Erica Roffe

As a PR at Ted Baker in the 1990s, I experienced first-hand the humiliating, inappropriate way the CEO treated his employeesWhen I worked for Ray Kelvin, Ted Baker’s founder and CEO, in the mid-1990s he was well-known as an eccentric, exuberant character and a maverick in the industry. He shunned many of the conventions of the fashion business and built a brand on quirkiness and the prevailing lad culture. Related: Ted Baker staff complain of ‘forced hugs’ by company founderCon