Jon Moynihan

Jonathan Patrick Moynihan OBE (born 21 June 1948) is a British businessman, who served as the executive chairman of PA Consulting Group.

Early life

Moynihan was born on 21 June 1948 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England to Sir Noel Henry and Margaret Mary Moynihan (née Lovelace). He has one brother and two sisters.[1] His father was a general practitioner and a former president of the charity, Save the Children.[2] Moynihan was privately educated at Ratcliffe College in Leicester,[3] and then studied at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1967.[4] He is a foundation fellow of the college.[5] He worked for Track Records and then the charities War on Want and Save the Children in India and Bangladesh. Between 1972 and 1976, Moynihan worked at the healthcare company Roche Products. After this, he studied at North London Polytechnic, and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[3][6]

Career

His first consulting job was at McKinsey & Company in 1977 in Amsterdam.[3][6] He left the company to join Strategic Planning Associates in Washington in 1979. Moynihan then worked as a partner at First Manhattan Consulting Group. In 1992, he was appointed as CEO of the consultancy PA Consulting Group, and later chairman.[6]

At the company, he transitioned the ownership of the firm from a trust to an employee-owned model. Moynihan wrote a charter of ethics that was mandatory for employees to sign up to. He was credited for turning around the company in the 1990s.[7] Moynihan retired in 2013 as chairman but remained as a principal of its venture capital arm, Ipex Capital.[6] In 2015, American private equity firm The Carlyle Group obtained a 51% share in the company.[8]

Euroscepticism and political activities

Moynihan supports Brexit.[9] Prior to the 2016 referendum, he was a member of the eurosceptic campaign group Business for Britain and sat on its board.[10] He was the chairman of the finance committee, and a member of the campaign committee of the official pro-Brexit campaign organisation, Vote Leave.[11] Moynihan is the chairman of the pro-Brexit right-wing think tank Initiative for Free Trade.[12] In June 2019, he donated £100,000 to Boris Johnson during the 2019 Conservative Party leadership election.[9]

He is a director of the education reform campaign organisation, Parents and Teachers for Excellence.[13]

Voluntary activities, and honours

He was awarded an OBE in 1995 for services to business.[14] Moynihan is a foundation fellow of, and was, from 1995 to 2007 Chairman of the Campaign Board at, Balliol College, which helped raise during his chairmanship £35 million for the College and the Oxford Internet Institute. In 2010, he received a Distinguished Friends of Oxford award.[15] Moynihan is a fellow of Gray's Inn.[16]. He served as the president of the Royal Albert Hall from 2015 to 2019.[17].

Personal life

Moynihan is married to Patricia Underwood, a hat designer.[6]

References
  1. "Moynihan, Jonathan Patrick". A&C Black. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  2. "Obituary: Sir Noel Moynihan". The Independent. 27 October 1994. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
  3. Keenan, Brigid (1 April 2019). "Getting Dressed: Jon Moynihan". The Oldie.
  4. "Distinguished Friends of Oxford". Floreat Domus. 16 June 2014.
  5. "Foundation Fellows". Balliol College, Oxford. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  6. Hill, Andrew (22 December 2013). "Jon Moynihan, the consummate consultant". Financial Times.(subscription required)
  7. Murray, Shailagh (9 July 1997). "British Consultancy Found Needy Client In Its Own Office". The Wall Street Journal Europe. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  8. "PA targets ambitious growth with Carlyle investment". Consultancy. Retrieved 12 February 2020.
  9. "Boris Johnson has received £500,000 in donations since May". The Guardian. 17 July 2019.
  10. "Change, or Go" (PDF). Business for Britain. p. 1029. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  11. "Vote Leave" (PDF). Vote Leave. p. 3. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  12. "About". Initiative for Free Trade. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  13. Dickens, John (22 September 2016). "Vote Leave campaigner and Tory donor behind Parents and Teachers for Excellence campaign". Schools Week.
  14. "Supplement to The London Gazette, 17th June 1995". The London Gazette. 16 June 1995. p. 13.
  15. "2010 Distinguished Friends of Oxford". Archived from the original on 3 December 2010. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
  16. "Fellows". Gray's Inn. Retrieved 11 February 2020.
  17. Andy Ricketts. "Royal Albert Hall appoints new president". Third Sector. Retrieved 10 November 2019.
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