Oliver R. J. Parr (Managing Director – United Kingdom & Ireland) is a highly experienced banker having spent over 25 years at JP Morgan and Samuel Montagu/HSBC. Latterly, he was responsible for the UK activities of HSBC Investment Bank’s Specialised Financing division, prior to which he established its mezzanine finance activity.
During his banking career he spent a number of years in both Australia and Singapore, as well as in London and New York. More recently he has been a consultant to Deloittes and, for four years until 2006, ran a financial advisory partnership, STAC Partners llp. He is currently an advisor to Structured Finance Management Limited, a provider of management services to the structured finance sector of the capital markets industry and is a non-executive director of a number of related special purpose companies. He is the Chairman of The Gallery in Cork Street Limited.
Mr. Parr is a graduate of Oxford University where he studied Politics, Philosophy and Economics. He has three adult children and lives in London with his wife.