Nichola Pease (born April 1961) is a British fund manager. According to The ''

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'' in 2019, Pease and her then husband

Crispin Odey Robin Crispin William Odey (born January 1959)O'Hannelly, Padraig"Investment Greats: Crispin Odey" Motley Fool, 2 October 2009. Retrieved 13 June 2012. is a London-based hedge fund manager and the founding partner of Odey Asset Management. In A ...

were worth £775 million.

Early life

Nichola Pease was born in April 1961. Her father,

Sir Richard Pease, 3rd Baronet Sir Richard Thorn Pease, 3rd Baronet, DL (20 May 1922 – 9 March 2021) was a British banker, who was chairman of Yorkshire Bank, and vice-chairman of Barclays. Early life Pease was born in May 1922, the son of Sir Richard Arthur Pease (1890 ...

, was a banker. Charles Moseley (ed.), '' Burke's Peerage, Baronetage & Knightage'', Wilmington, Delaware: Burke's Peerage, 2003, vol. 3, p. 3074Business profile: It's in the blood and it's a passion
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'', 5 March 2005 Her mother is Anne Heyworth. She received a bachelor's degree in English from the

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.Trouble at House of Pease
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Career

Pease started her career in finance at

Kleinwort Benson Kleinwort Benson was a leading investment bank that offered a wide range of financial services from offices throughout the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. Two families, the Kleinworts and the Bensons, founded two different merchant banks in L ...

in 1983. In 1985, she joined Smith New Court and by 1989, she was a director. She served as the chief executive officer (CEO) of

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from 1998 to 2008,Robert Cookson
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'', 9 October 2008 while James Hambro was the chairman. She stepped down as deputy chairman in 2008, when she was replaced as CEO by Gavin Rochussen. Upon its 2011 merger with

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, an Australian financial firm, she earned a third of £124 million.Miles Costello
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'', 20 July 2011 She was on the board of directors of

Northern Rock Northern Rock, formerly the Northern Rock Building Society, was a British bank. Based at Regent Centre in Newcastle upon Tyne, United Kingdom, Northern Rock was originally a building society. It demutualised and became Northern Rock bank in ...

from 1999 to 2007. She was a director of

Grainger plc Grainger plc is a British-based residential property business. It is headquartered in Newcastle upon Tyne and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. History The business was established by the Dickinson family in 1912 as the ''Grainger Trust'' ...

from 2001 to 2005. She is a non-executive director of

Schroders Schroders plc is a British multinational asset management company, founded in 1804. The company employs over 5,000 people worldwide in 32 locations around Europe, America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East. Headquartered in the City of London, it ...

. In 2019, Pease was appointed by

Jupiter Fund Management Jupiter Fund Management is a UK fund management group, managing equity and bond investments for private and institutional investors. The company manages assets across a wide range of international and UK based mutual funds, investment companies ...

as non-executive chairman. On 26 April 2023, she stepped down as non-executive chair of

with immediate effect, citing "personal reasons". This followed her recent divorce from Crispin Odey. On 8 June 2023, the ''

'' released an exposé of how her former husband,

, evaded sexual assault allegations for decades, with thirteen women accusing the hedge fund titan of harassment, abuse and fostering a toxic workplace.

Personal life

She married Crispin Odey, a hedge fund manager, in 1991 before divorcing in 2021. They have three children.

References

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