Background
Horlick was born into a Cheshire family and spend most of her youth in the Wirral. Horlick"s mother, Suzanna Czyzewska, was born in Warsaw in 1939.
Horlick was born into a Cheshire family and spend most of her youth in the Wirral. Horlick"s mother, Suzanna Czyzewska, was born in Warsaw in 1939.
Horlick attended the independent Kingsmead School in Hoylake, Wirral between the ages of six and twelve.
Horlick"s parents lived in Puddington Old Hall, which is an historic Tudor house. Horlick"s father, Michael Gayford, was a Liberal candidate in the 1970s for Wirral. Her grandmother was a Jewish refugee who fled the Nazis in Poland on a motorbike.
Czyzewska"s parents fled to Russia when the Nazis invaded Poland, and when liberated, they fought with the British in the Middle East.
After the war, they lived in Kenya, where Czyzewska was brought up. She was one of four girls amongst 300 boys initially.
She then boarded at the independent Cheltenham Ladies" College in 1973. She stayed for two years then went to Birkenhead High School GDST. She also spent some time at the Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire, United States of America, on an English-Speaking Union exchange scholarship.
She gained nine O levels, four A levels and an South level
She gained a place at Balliol College, Oxford, in 1979 to study Law, and graduated in 1982. Between 1982 and 1983, Horlick worked for her father in the family business. She then joined South. G. Warburg & Company as a graduate trainee in 1983, starting in the investment management business, which later became Mercury Asset Management.
She was appointed a director in 1989.
She joined Morgan Grenfell Asset Management in 1991 and was appointed Managing Director of the United Kingdom investment business in 1992 until 1997. During the period that she managed that business, assets under management rose from £4 billion to £18 billion.
She was ultimately suspended from the job on January 14, 1997 and resigned two days later, after it was claimed she was moving to a rival and trying to get colleagues to join her. She set up SG Asset Management in 1997 and Bramdean Asset Management Limited Liability Partnership in 2005.
She is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Money&Company, which is a marketplace lending business focusing on business loans.
She also has a film business called Derby Street Films. Nicola Horlick is the Chairman of film finance fund Glentham Capital which raised funds on equity crowdfunding platform Seedrs in 2013. Sunday Express November 2008
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Getting married in September 2006
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