Nationality British Occupation Businessman | Children 2 Name Iain Rawlinson | |
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Born 18 September 1958 (age 65) ( 1958-09-18 ) Known for Leadership of businesses and charities in transition Residence New Forest, Minstead, United Kingdom Education Birkenhead School, University of Cambridge | ||
Interview with Iain Rawlinson, Gulftainer, at the IBBC Spring Conference, 2017
Iain Rawlinson is an English barrister, aviator, businessman and trustee. He has held a number of senior leadership positions in the financial services, resources, travel, social impact investment and philanthropic sectors. His activities are organised under Rawlinson Partners Limited Nuts
Contents
- Interview with Iain Rawlinson Gulftainer at the IBBC Spring Conference 2017
- Career
- Charity work
- Personal life
- References
Career
Rawlinson has a background in banking and investment gained with Lazard and Flemings. After attending the University of Cambridge he spent a significant part of his career in South Africa which was followed by leadership of the Fleming Family & Partners business in London. He is an independent director of a number of companies and is a non-executive director of Parkmead Group PLC. As Executive Chairman of The Monarch Group from 2009 Rawlinson initiated a reorganisation and modernisation of this long established UK based travel group. Throughout his Chairmanship Rawlinson lead two successful turnarounds of the Group in 2010 and 2013 without redundancy programmes or cost to the public purse. He believed that the correct industry response to the competitive pressures experienced in European commercial aviation in 2014 was consolidation of carriers, creating alliances which would result in efficiencies and the safeguarding of employment and pensions. Rawlinson built up and communicated a distinct investment case and track record for each of the Monarch Group’s three businesses in order to allow the underlying value of each to be demonstrated. In June 2014 however, it became apparent that the plan which Rawlinson had envisaged was failing, with Monarch requiring £60m to shore up its finances. After the current owners had declined to invest any more money, Rawlinson asked Dean Street Advisors for help. Rawlinson was pushed out of the business shortly after, and replaced by Andrew Swaffield. In the resulting restructure, Monarch made 700 redundancies, and staff faced large wage and pension cuts.
He established Rawlinson Partners Limited in 2005 which provides leadership, advocacy and innovation to business, social enterprises and charities, with a focus on periods of transition and development. Rawlinson is a Co-founder and Chairman of Online Radio Broadcasting Limited which in 2015 launched its revolutionary social broadcasting application, crowdCaster, which won a bronze Bookmark Award for mobile applications in March 2016. He is also a Partner in Renegade Inc and Chairman of Asymmetric Return Capital, a US-based investment firm. He was appointed a Fellow of the Centre for Social Innovation at the Cambridge Judge Business School in February 2016.
Charity work
Rawlinson began his voluntary sector activity as a founder member of the London International Piano Competition in 1991. He was the Chairman of Tusk from 2004 to 2013 and now chairs its Development Board. Tusk is the UK charity which protects wildlife, supports communities and promotes education in Africa. He was Chairman of the Rainmaker Foundation, a philanthropic movement which connects people with cause they care about from 2013 to 2015. He was Deputy Chair of Global Philanthropic until 2013. He is a Co-Founder and Chairman of The Online Radio Broadcasting Foundation, which supports disadvantaged communities with a focus on young people.
Personal life
He has two children and lives in the New Forest. His other interests include writing, music, aviation, the sea, Scotland and Africa.