Matthew Orr

Career

He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment. He then went on to set up the Debenhams" share shops. In 1989 he co-founded Killik & Company, one of the United Kingdom"s leading private client investment houses, and was its Managing Partner and Chief Executive until 2006.

He was also an initial financial backer of the multi manager 7IM which was subsequently sold to asset management company Threadneedle.

He continues his entrepreneurial interest through advising and investing in new and developing companies. In 1996 he co-founded Sharegift, the United Kingdom-based charity share donation scheme, with Lady Claire Mackintosh.

Matthew Orr also devoted time to promoting wider financial learning. ifs ProShare is a membership organisation that provides a voice for the Employee Share Ownership (ESO) industry in the United Kingdom. He also initiated WoFED, a group formed to develop ideas for Workplace Finance Education (ceased in 2007).

Achievements

• Orr and Mackintosh were awarded the Beacon Fellowship Prize in 2006 for their efforts in venture philanthropy.

Membership

Matthew was a personal member of the London Stock Exchange, and a director of stockbroking firm Quilter Goodison up until 1987. He is a former member of the ifs School of Finance Board of Governors, (the ifs School of Finance is a financial education charity providing financial qualifications from GCSE level through to master"s degrees) and a former chair of the ifs ProShare Faculty Board (replaced by an Advisory Board in 2007).