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==Affiliations==
 
==Affiliations==
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*[[HASS Corporation]] (Henry Alan Sweetbaum Services) - Company through which Sweetbaum received some of his remuneration while at Wickes.
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*[[Statesman Travel]] - Sweetbaum was a major shareholder in 1995.
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[[Accelerator Technology Holdings]] - investment committee member.
 
[[Accelerator Technology Holdings]] - investment committee member.
 
*[[Inovent]] - Advisory Board member.
 
*[[Inovent]] - Advisory Board member.
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==Connections==
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*[[Henry Sweetbaum]]
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*[[Barry Sweetbaum]]
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*[[Richard Boddie]]
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*[[Sanford Sigoloff]]
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==Notes==
 
==Notes==
 
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[[Category:UK|Sweetbaum, Henry]][[Category:United States|Sweetbaum, Henry]]
 
[[Category:UK|Sweetbaum, Henry]][[Category:United States|Sweetbaum, Henry]]

Revision as of 14:47, 15 July 2015

Henry Sweetbaum is the former chairman and chief executive of DIY chain Wickes.[1]

Sweetbaum was co-founder of Reliance Group Holdings, a New York Stock Exchange listed company. He moved to the United Kingdom in 1970, when he was appointed Executive Director of the Plessey Company Limited.[2]

From 1976 to 1982, Sweetbaum chaired Data Recording Instrument Company, a British government-owned computer peripherals manufacturer.[2]

Wickes

From 1982-1986, he was Chairman of Wickes International Corporation. In 1986, he led the management buyout of Wickes plc and served as Chairman and CEO until 1996.[2]

In 1996, the Independent alleged that Sweetbaum faced a potential conflict of interest in his role at Wickes, because he was a director and major shareholder in a travel business, Statesman Travel, which provided Wickes with group travel and accommodation arrangements for senior management.[1]

In a statement quoted by the Independent, Sweetbaum said:

The relationship between Statesman Travel and Wickes was a normal arm's length trading relationship, fully disclosed to the board and the auditors of Wickes, and the board resolved the relationship was immaterial, and did not require disclosure.[1]

In 2002, he was one a number of former Wickes directors found not guilty on charges of fraudulent trading and making a false statement to auditors between January 1 1994 and June 27 1996.[3]

PS Capital

In 1997, he co-founded PS Capital LLC, an American company that advises and invests in companies in Asia, Europe and the U.S.[2]

Affiliations

Accelerator Technology Holdings - investment committee member.

Connections

Notes

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 The DIY boss and the private network he assembled himself, The Independent, 28 July 1996.
  2. 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 Henry Sweetbaum – Chairman, International Centre for the Study of Radicalisation and Political Violence, accessed 15 July 2015.
  3. Ex-Wickes trio cleared of fraud, The Telegraph, 26 November 2002.