Nicholas David Jenkins (born 13 May 1967) is an English businessman, known for founding the online greeting card retailer Moonpig.com, and being a "dragon" on the BBC Two business series ''

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'' for the thirteenth and fourteenth series.

Biography

He was born in

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and attended Haberdashers' Adams Grammar School in

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and

Birmingham University , mottoeng = Through efforts to heights , established = 1825 – Birmingham School of Medicine and Surgery1836 – Birmingham Royal School of Medicine and Surgery1843 – Queen's College1875 – Mason Science College1898 – Mason Univers ...

where he read Russian literature. He then worked for eight years as a commodity trader for Glencore in

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. In 1998, he returned to the UK to study for an

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at Cranfield University. He launched the greeting card business Moonpig in 2000. 'Moonpig' was his nickname at school, hence the name of the brand. In 2011, he sold Moonpig for an estimated £120 million. Since 2008, Jenkins has been investing in start-up businesses. He was a member of the Impact Ventures UK investment committee – an investment fund which invests in social enterprises using innovation to find better solutions to social issues in the UK. He is also involved with the educational charity ''Ark and Shivia''. Jenkins has owned Stockton House, a Grade I listed building at

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since 2014. Jenkins has donated money to the Conservative Party and was a signatory to a letter to ''

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'' during the 2015 United Kingdom general election campaign, which praised the party's economic policies and claimed that a Labour government under

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would “threaten jobs and deter investment”.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Jenkins, Nick 1967 births Living people People educated at Adams' Grammar School Alumni of the University of Birmingham Alumni of Cranfield University English businesspeople English television personalities People from Droitwich Spa Conservative Party (UK) donors Conservative Party (UK) people