Ian David Gorham (born 30 November 1971) is a British businessman. He was the chief executive (CEO) of

Hargreaves Lansdown Hargreaves Lansdown Limited is a British financial services company based in Bristol, England. It sells funds, shares and related products to retail investors in the United Kingdom. It is the largest investment platform in the UK. The company wa ...

plc, a British financial service company from 2010 to 2017. Since 2017 he has been a stock market and fund investor and owner of businesses including Skyline Chess, Midgap Properties and Cookalong Kitchen.

Early life

He has a bachelor's degree in economics from the

University of Warwick The University of Warwick ( ; abbreviated as ''Warw.'' in post-nominal letters) is a public research university on the outskirts of Coventry between the West Midlands and Warwickshire, England. The university was founded in 1965 as part of ...

Career

He was CEO of Hargreaves Lansdown since September 2010, having joined in September 2009 as chief operating officer. He qualified as a chartered accountant in 1996. Previously he helped build

Deloitte Deloitte is a multinational professional services network based in London, United Kingdom. It is the largest professional services network in the world by revenue and number of employees, and is one of the Big Four accounting firms, along wi ...

's financial services operations and from September 2003 – September 2009, worked for

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, rising to Partner and Head of their UK financial services business. In September 2016, it was announced that Gorham would step down as CEO of

by September 2017, and would be succeeded by Chris Hill.

References

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