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Hugh Edward Mark Osmond (born 24 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 consti ...
, one of the UK's largest chains of
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s.


Early life

Hugh Edward Mark Osmond was born on 24 March 1962, the son of a doctor, and educated at
Merton College, Oxford Merton College (in full: The House or College of Scholars of Merton in the University of Oxford) is a Colleges of the University of Oxford, constituent college of the University of Oxford in England. Its foundation can be traced back to the 126 ...
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 Investment is traditionally defined as the "commitment of resources into something expected to gain value over time". If an investment involves money, then it can be defined as a "commitment of money to receive more money later". From a broade ...
in
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. Returning to the UK he worked with Luke Johnson to launch the flotation of
PizzaExpress PizzaExpress (Restaurants) Limited, trading as Pizza Express (also called Pizza Marzano or Milano), is a British multinational pizza restaurant chain. It has over 500 restaurants across the United Kingdom and 100 overseas in Europe, Hong Kong, ...
in 1993. 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 consti ...
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 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 The Pearl Loan Company an ...
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 ''
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'' in 2020 his net worth was estimated at £232 million.


Public life

Osmond is a significant donor to the Conservative Party.


Personal life

Osmond owns a shooting estate in Berkshire, and maintains homes in Moulsford in Oxfordshire,
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in Cornwall, and
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in west London. He has three sons with his partner Lucy.


See also

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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 Lloyds Bank plc is a major British retail and commercial bank with a sign ...


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