Malcolm Offord

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Malcolm Offord is a 'Partner of Charterhouse having joined the firm in June 1998 from Bankers Trust Company where he had been a Managing Director in the European Leveraged Finance Group.[1] Prior to his two years at Bankers Trust, Offord 'spent two years in venture capital with 3i and, before that, six years in M&A with Lazard. He is an honours graduate in Law from Edinburgh University. Malcolm focuses on Charterhouse's origination activities in a number of sectors including financial services, consumer brands and media. He has been responsible for originating and exiting the successful Charterhouse investments in Tussauds, Avent and Saga, and was a non-executive director of Coral Eurobet. Since then, he has originated and led the transaction teams for Drive Assist UK, Acromas Holdings (the new company created following the £6.15bn merger of Saga and The AA in July 2007), Giles Insurance Brokers Limited and most recently, in June 2009, the £550 million MBO of Wood Mackenzie.'[2]

Early life

Offord 'was born and educated in Greenock'.[3]

Offord is also a founder of Social Justice Scotland[4]He was appointed a Director on 31 August 2009[5], and terminated on 13 December 2009[6]) ; member of the Advisory Board of the Centre for Social Justice[7][8]

Screengrab of In the News page of SJS website, featuring Malcolm Offord's Bankrupt Britain report

Politics

Offord is a donor to Michael Gove MP, giving £2500 (direct donation) on 3 November 2009 (Date of acceptance: 26 November 2009 (Registered 25 November 2009))[9]

Affiliations

Resources

Notes

  1. Charterhouse Malcolm Offord, accessed 13 March 2010
  2. Charterhouse Malcolm Offord, accessed 13 March 2010
  3. DONATION Will Help Transform Lives, Inverclyde Now 07 December 2007
  4. Bankrupt Britain, SJS website, Google cache 28 Nov 2009
  5. Appointment of director, Malcolm Offord, Companies House document retrieved 1 Feb 2010. Some personal information blocked out by SpinProfiles editors.
  6. Termination of appointment of director, Malcolm Offord, Companies House document retrieved 1 Feb 2010
  7. Bankrupt Britain, SJS website, Google cache 28 Nov 2009
  8. Social Justice Scotland Directors, SJS website, cached version of the page as it appeared on 25 Jan 2010 22:42:25 GMT, accessed in Google cache 6 Feb 2010
  9. They work for You Michael Gove, accessed 13 March 2010