Background
Jeremy Peace was born 13 August 1956 in West Bromwich and educated at Shrewsbury School.
Jeremy Peace was born 13 August 1956 in West Bromwich and educated at Shrewsbury School.
He worked in accountancy, as a stockbroker and in investment banking between 1974 and 1983. Until 1991, he was a major shareholder and director of Morland Securities Public Limited Company (later renamed Access Satellite International Public Limited Company) and then of Sangers Photographics Public Limited Company (later renamed Quadrant Group Public Limited Company). Since that time, Peace has been a director and/or shareholder in various public limited companies, namely South Country Homes, Thomas Potts, London Town, e-primefinancial, European Parliament&F Capital, Galahad Capital, Camelot Capital and F.C.
Peace joined the board of as a Non-Executive Director on 8 December 2000, and became Chairman in June 2002, following the resignation of Paul Thompson.
The Company was taken private in 2005, with him owning a majority shareholding. On 31 May 2013, Peace transferred his 59.9 per cent shareholding in Group Limited to a new company, Holdings Limited.
Peace is the sole director of Holdings Limited and owns 100 per cent of the new company. The Companies House return for Holdings Limited dated 10 June 2015 shows that whilst Peace owns 100% of the Ordinary Share Capital, a new class of "A" Ordinary Shares has been created.
Kappa Limited owns 12500 of these shares, and is the sole shareholder in this class.
In 2013, the Daily Express reported that Peace "runs the club with a rod of iron. Any manager has to accept the title of ‘head coach’ and be prepared to slot into the way Peace does things.".
