Hugh Edward Mark Osmond (born March 1962) is an entrepreneur and businessman and was the founder of
Punch Taverns
Punch Pubs & Co is a pub and bar operator in the United Kingdom, with around 1,300 leased pubs. It is headquartered in the traditional brewing centre of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange as a constit ...
,
one of the UK's largest chains of
public house
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s.
Early life
Hugh Edward Mark Osmond was born in March 1962,
the son of a doctor,
and educated at
Merton College, Oxford
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where he read medicine.
Career
Osmond went to the US in 1983 and worked in clubs for a while.
He then joined a small
investment bank
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In finance, the purpose of investing is ...
in
Madrid
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.
[ Returning to the UK he worked with Luke Johnson to launch the flotation of ]PizzaExpress
PizzaExpress is a British multinational restaurant group, owned by a group of bondholders. It has over 470 restaurants across the United Kingdom and 100 overseas in Europe, Hong Kong, China, India, Indonesia, Kuwait, the Philippines, the Unite ...
in 1993.[Pearl Group: Board]
/ref> In 1997 he founded Punch Taverns
Punch Pubs & Co is a pub and bar operator in the United Kingdom, with around 1,300 leased pubs. It is headquartered in the traditional brewing centre of Burton upon Trent in Staffordshire. It was listed on the London Stock Exchange as a constit ...
which was one of the UK's largest chains of pubs: he was chairman of Punch Taverns from 1997 to 2001.[ In 2002 he became a leading partner in ''Sun Capital Partners'': that vehicle secured a major investment in ]Pearl Group
Phoenix Group Holdings plc (formerly Pearl Group plc) is a provider of insurance services based in London, England. It is listed on the London Stock Exchange and is a constituent of the FTSE 100 Index.
History
The company was founded in 1857 as ...
in 2005.
In 2001, he founded the London-based private equity firm, Sun Capital Partners Limited. Nowadays he is related to several companies e.g. Morris United Limited, Alphabet Shares Limited, SCP Hotels Limited and Various Eateries Limited.
According to The '' Sunday Times Rich List'' in 2020 his net worth was estimated at £232 million.
Public life
Osmond is a significant donor to the Conservative Party
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Political parties called The Conservative P ...
.
Personal life
Osmond owns a shooting estate in Berkshire, and maintains homes in Moulsford
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in Oxfordshire, Wadebridge
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in Cornwall, and Marylebone
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in west London.
See also
*Mike Fairey
Michael Edward Fairey ( June 1948 - 20 November 2022 ) is the chairman of Hastings Insurance since June 2015. He was previously deputy chief executive of Lloyds TSB bank. He is the chairman of the trustees of the Lloyds TSB Pension Funds. He is non ...
References
1962 births
Alumni of Merton College, Oxford
British company founders
British hospitality businesspeople
English businesspeople
Living people
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