Greg Marsh is a British entrepreneur who founded hospitality company

onefinestay onefinestay is a British hospitality company headquartered in London. It was founded in 2009. onefinestay operates in London, New York, Paris, Los Angeles and Rome. The company provides a service to owners of distinctive and upmarket homeowners ...

and cost of living tool Nous.

Early life

Marsh was born in

London London is the capital and largest city of England and the United Kingdom, with a population of just under 9 million. It stands on the River Thames in south-east England at the head of a estuary down to the North Sea, and has been a majo ...

. He read English and philosophy at Christ's College, Cambridge. He later attended

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

on a

Fulbright Scholarship The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright–Hays Program, is one of several United States Cultural Exchange Programs with the goal of improving intercultural relations, cultural diplomacy, and intercultural competence between the people of ...

, and was twice named Ford Scholar. Marsh is the grandson of

Amnesty International Amnesty International (also referred to as Amnesty or AI) is an international non-governmental organization focused on human rights, with its headquarters in the United Kingdom. The organization says it has more than ten million members and sup ...

founder

Peter Benenson Peter Benenson (born Peter James Henry Solomon; 31 July 1921 – 25 February 2005) was a British barrister, human rights activist and the founder of the human rights group Amnesty International (AI). He refused all honours for most of his life, ...

, who was the only child of campaigner

Flora Solomon Flora Solomon, OBE (''née'' Benenson; 28 September 1895 – 18 July 1984) was an influential Zionist. The first woman hired to improve working conditions at Marks & Spencer in London, Solomon was later instrumental in the exposure of British s ...

Career

In 2009, Marsh came up with the idea for hospitality business

. It launched in 2010 and was acquired six years later by

AccorHotels Accor S.A. is a French multinational hospitality company that owns, manages and franchises hotels, resorts and vacation properties. It is the largest hospitality company in Europe, and the sixth largest hospitality company worldwide. Accor op ...

for at least $170 million (£117 million). After Marsh left the company in September 2016, he was appointed as a panel member of the 2017

Taylor Review The Taylor Review with the full title ''Good Work: The Taylor Review of Modern Working Practices'' (July 2017) was a review submitted to the UK government concerning employee and worker rights in UK labour law. It was chaired by Matthew Taylor, Ch ...

of Modern Working Practices, commissioned by then British Prime Minister

Theresa May Theresa Mary May, Lady May (; née Brasier; born 1 October 1956) is a British politician who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and Leader of the Conservative Party from 2016 to 2019. She previously served in David Cameron's cab ...

. That year, he joined the faculty at

, teaching entrepreneurship, and was also elected to the International Board of

. Marsh is also a visiting professor at

Imperial College Business School Imperial College Business School is the graduate business school of Imperial College London in the UK. In 2004, the business school was opened by Queen Elizabeth II. History In 1851, the Great Exhibition was the first World's Fair, organized by ...

. In 2021, Marsh co-founded Nous, which aggregates cost of living data for consumers in areas such as energy, insurance and broadband. In February 2022, the platform announced it had raised £6.6m ($9m) in seed funding. Marsh has contributed to British newspapers and broadcast media, on topics including entrepreneurialism, consumer budgeting, the cost of living crisis and mental health.

Personal life

In 2011 Marsh polled 11th in a list of London's most eligible start-up CEOs.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Marsh, Greg Living people Year of birth missing (living people) 21st-century British businesspeople English businesspeople Alumni of Christ's College, Cambridge Harvard Business School alumni