Career
He has held a number of senior leadership positions in the financial services, resources, travel, social impact investment and philanthropic sectors. His activities are organised under Rawlinson Partners Limited. Rawlinson has a background in banking and investment gained with Lazard and Flemings.
Throughout his Chairmanship Rawlinson lead two successful turnarounds of the Group in 2010 and 2013 without redundancy programmes or cost to the public purse.
He believed that the correct industry response to the competitive pressures experienced in European commercial aviation in 2014 was consolidation of carriers, creating alliances which would result in efficiencies and the safeguarding of employment and pensions. Rawlinson built up and communicated a distinct investment case and track record for each of the Monarch Group’s three businesses in order to allow the underlying value of each to be demonstrated.
Rawlinson stepped down in July 2014 when the Monarch shareholders chose a path for the overall Group under which Monarch Airlines would continue as an independent carrier, which was later followed by job and wage cuts and the subsequent sale of the group. He established Rawlinson Partners Limited in 2005 which provides leadership, advocacy and innovation to business, social enterprises and charities, with a focus on periods of transition and development.
He is also a Partner in Renegade Incorporated and Chairman of Asymmetric Return Capital, a United States-based investment firm.
He was appointed a Fellow of the Centre for Social Innovation at the Cambridge Judge Business School in February 2016. He was the Chairman of Tusk from 2004 to 2013 and now chairs its Development Board. Tusk is the United Kingdom charity which protects wildlife, supports communities and promotes education in Africa.
He was Chairman of the Rainmaker Foundation, a philanthropic movement which connects people with cause they care about from 2013 to 2015.
He was Deputy Chair of Global Philanthropic until 2013.
