Career
Fry has more than twenty years’ experience in advising companies and governments in both the United Kingdom and internationally. He is Chairman of Espírito Santo’s United Kingdom Investment Banking operations and a senior adviser to the Board of Espírito Santo Investment Bank. He has worked for a number of leading financial institutions including Rothschild Group, CSFB, Lehman Brothers and Evercore.
He has also sat on the Appeals Board of the Panel on Takeovers and Mergers and was appointed by Her Majesty Treasury to serve on the appointments panel for the valuers for Northern Rock, Bradford & Bingley and Dunfermline Building Society.
As Global Head of the Media business and European Head of Telecoms at Cr Suisse, he worked with a number of media organisations including the, BSkyB and Vivendi. He has held a number of non-executive positions at companies including Southern Water, the British Standards Institution, Mowlem and is currently the Chairman of Dairy Crest and is on the boards of Control Risks and of CALA Group.
He also serves on the boards of numerous charitable foundations and academic institutions including SOAS, The Godolphin and Latymer School and the English National Opera. He has a first class honours degree in Modern History from Oxford University.
On 26 April 2013, it was announced that he would succeed Sir David Richards as the Chairman of the with effect from July 2013.
He is a fan of Manchester United football club On 30 June 2014, it was announced Fry would step down from the role of Chairman of the following a stroke.
