Richard Tice

Richard Tice
Tice in May 2018
Born Richard James Sunley Tice
September 1964 (age 54)
Farnham, Surrey
Nationality British
Education Uppingham School
Alma mater University of Salford
Known for Founder of Leave Means Leave and former co-chair of Leave.EU
Title CEO, Quidnet Capital
Relatives Bernard Sunley (grandfather)

Richard James Sunley Tice (born September 1964)[1] is a British entrepreneur and campaigner.

Tice is CEO of the asset management group Quidnet Capital LLP, which has around £500 million of property under management. He was CEO of real estate group CLS Holdings from 2010 to 2014. He has campaigned on education[2] and housing,[3] and is best known for his support of Brexit as founder of Leave Means Leave and former co-chair of Leave.EU.[4]

Early life

Richard Tice is the grandson of the property developer Bernard Sunley,[5] and his mother is Joan M. Tice DL.[6]

He was born in Farnham, Surrey and brought up in the Midlands. He was educated at a prep school in Northamptonshire and then Uppingham School,[7] which he went to in 1978.[7] He subsequently received a bachelor's degree in Construction Economics and Quantity Surveying at the University of Salford.[8]

Career

After graduation, in 1987, he started his career with the housing developer London and Metropolitan. In 1989, he was sent to France to open a new office in Paris, where he learnt to speak French fluently.[9]

During the recession in 1991, Tice started a housebuilder and commercial property company called The Sunley Group. Over 15 years the company acquired over 100 sites, secured planning permission and built thousands of homes in London and southern England.[9]

The Sunley Group sold up in 2006.[9] He then ran a debt advisory consultancy before joining CLS Holdings in 2010 where, during his time in charge, the company's share price tripled to become the top-performing property investment on the London Stock Exchange. By the time he left, it was a multinational company with more than £1bn in assets on the cusp of joining the FTSE-250.[9] Tice is now CEO and a partner at Quidnet Capital.[10][11]

Voluntary

Tice has been a governor of Northampton Academy since 2005 and was chairman of governors for his first five years there,[9] with results improving during this time to above the national average. He is also vice-chairman of trustees and chairs the finance committee at Uppingham School.[9]

From 2005 to 2010, he was a trustee of the educational charity United Learning Trust and is involved in the charitable foundation established by his grandfather in the 1960s, the Bernard Sunley Foundation. By 2013, the charity had given out more than £100m, making it one of Britain's larger grant-funding charities.[9]

Politics

He is a member of the Conservative Party.[12] He reportedly considered running for the Conservative nomination for the London mayoral election in 2020.[13]

Brexit

Tice founded Leave Means Leave shortly after the 2016 EU referendum. He co-chairs it with the businessman John Longworth. In October 2017, they were placed jointly at Number 90 on Iain Dale's list of the 'Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right'.[14]

In July 2015, Tice co-founded Leave.EU,[15] which he left soon after the referendum.

Education

In addition to his work with schools, Tice wrote a 2008 report for the think tank Reform called "Academies: A model education?” that included a series of recommendations on how to expand the academies programme.[16] The report was welcomed by the then-Labour government and helped inform the academies policy drawn up by the Conservatives in opposition that led to the rapid acceleration of the programme after the 2010 general election.

More recently, Tice has been campaigning for a better deal for university students. In Autumn 2017, his report "Timebomb: how the university cartel is failing Britain’s students" included recommendations on how to expand two-year degrees.[17] The report gained cross-party support and featured a foreword by Lord Adonis, the former Labour schools minister, and by Sir Anthony Seldon, the education reformer and vice-chancellor of Buckingham university. It was cited by Jo Johnson, then universities minister, in a major speech in 2017.

Tice produced a follow-up report on student finances called "Defusing the debt timebomb" which he presented to the Chancellor, Philip Hammond.[18] His intervention was closely followed by the Prime Minister's launch of a student funding review in February 2018.[19]

Housing

A long-time contributor to the magazine Property Week, Tice is a regular commentator on developments within the property world.[20] In a May 2018 article on the website Conservative Home, Tice argued for the importance of expanding the availability of homes for people on lower incomes and how this could be achieved more effectively.[21] He explored the connections between badly managed housing and crime.

Tice is a vocal critic of Mayor of London Sadiq Khan, arguing that he has not done enough on crime and community, basing his argument on his experience visiting London estates.[22] He has argued that Conservatives should accept their share of the blame where spending cuts have led to the loss of youth centres.[21]

Personal

Tice is married and has three children.[23]

Other

Tice is a sports fan who enjoys long-distance bike rides.[24] According to his personal website, he has completed the Cresta Run around 500 times.[25]

References

  1. ↑ "CLS HOLDINGS PLC – Officers". Companies House, Government of the United Kingdom. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  2. ↑ "Tice education campaigner". richardtice.com.
  3. ↑ "Tice campaigner". richardtice.com.
  4. ↑ "Tice Eurosceptic". richardtice.com.
  5. ↑ "Archived copy" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 9 January 2017. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  6. ↑ "THE BERNARD SUNLEY CHARITABLE FOUNDATION : TRUSTEES REPORT AND FINANCIAL STATEMENTS FOR YEAR ENDED 31 MARCH 2013" (PDF). Bernardsunley.org. Retrieved 1 October 2017.
  7. 1 2 "OU (Old Uppinghamians) Magazine – Issue 41 – 2013/2014 (page 9)". Uppingham School. 2013. Retrieved 1 December 2016.
  8. ↑ "Academies : a model education?" (PDF). Reform.uk. Retrieved 8 January 2017.
  9. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Tice Work". richardtice.com.
  10. ↑ "Richard Tice". Quidnet Capital Partners. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  11. ↑ "Quidnet Capital Partners CEO Richard Tice calls for Brexit: 'The EU is flatlining and not helping its citizens'". Business Insider. 11 November 2015. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  12. ↑ "Tice Party". richardtice.com.
  13. ↑ "Tice reportedly running". Daily Mail. Retrieved 4 June 2018.
  14. ↑ Dale, Iain (2 October 2017). "The Top 100 Most Influential People on the Right: Iain Dale's 2017 List". LBC. Retrieved 31 October 2017.
  15. ↑ Hope, Christopher (21 June 2015). "Millionaires prepare to launch £20million non-political campaign for Britain to quit European Union". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  16. ↑ "Reform report" (PDF). reform.uk.
  17. ↑ "Timebomb report" (PDF). uk2020.org.uk.
  18. ↑ "Timebomb report" (PDF). uk2020.org.uk.
  19. ↑ "Review of Post18 Education". Government of the United Kingdom.
  20. ↑ "Richard Tice's articles". propertyweek.com.
  21. 1 2 "Richard Tice: Let's all do our bit to end the scourge of knife crime". conservativehome.com.
  22. ↑ "The best of London". richardtice.com.
  23. ↑ "Early years". richardtice.com.
  24. ↑ "Sports". richardtice.com.
  25. ↑ "Tice on ice". richardtice.com.
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