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Matthew Orr (born 1962) is an entrepreneur living in the UK. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.
Career
Matthew was a personal member of the London Stock Exchange, and a director of stockbroking firm Quilter Goodison up until 1987. He then went on to set up the Debenhams' share shops. In 1989 he co-founded Killik & Co, one of the UK's leading private client investment houses, and was its Managing Partner and Chief Executive until 2006. He was also an initial financial backer of the multi manager 7IM which was subsequently sold to asset management company Threadneedle. Although he remains a founding partner of Killik & Co, he and his film producer wife Sybil Robson Orr started the documentary and feature film production company Robson Orr Entertainment and Spark, a film distribution business.
He continues his entrepreneurial interest through advising and investing in new and developing companies. In 1996 he co-founded Sharegift, the UK-based charity share donation scheme, with Lady Claire Mackintosh. Orr and Mackintosh were awarded the Beacon Fellowship Prize in 2006 for their efforts in venture philanthropy.
Matthew Orr also devoted time to promoting wider financial learning. He is a former member of the ifs School of Finance Board of Governors, (the ifs School of Finance is a financial education charity providing financial qualifications from GCSE level through to master's degrees) and a former chair of the ifs ProShare Faculty Board (replaced by an Advisory Board in 2007). Ifs ProShare is a membership organisation that provides a voice for the Employee Share Ownership (ESO) industry in the UK. He also initiated WoFED, a group formed to develop ideas for Workplace Finance Education (ceased in 2007).