Who are ‘preferred investors’ the Ogden family
Sir Peter Ogden is a philanthropic computer multi-millionaire
Sir Peter Ogden is a businessman and entrepreneur who was born in Rochdale and has experience investing in his hometown. However, he has consistently contributed thousands of pounds in funding and gifts to the subject of education, not football.
Simon Gauge, the chairman of Rochdale AFC, issued a warning, stating that if no buyer could be found by the end of this month, the football team will go out of business. The Ogden family was declared the club’s “preferred investor” for the takeover today.
According to the family, there would be “enough” money to support the club for the following thirty days. “By the expiry of that period, we plan to have completed our diligence and formulated and presented our offer such that, assuming it is acceptable to the club, we can conclude an investment before the end of the season,” stated the club in a statement. Crucially, the family clarified in their statement that the offer was not driven by money, and the shares they would buy would be held in trust for the Rochdale AFC Community Trust’s benefit.
Raised in Percy Street, Kingsway, Sir Peter attended Rochdale Grammar School for Boys and Lowerplace Primary School before enrolling at Balderstone Technology College.
Following that, he was awarded a scholarship to attend Durham University. He then proceeded to Harvard Business School to get his MBA before starting a career in investment banking, mostly with Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley, in the US and the UK.
In 1981, he co-founded Computacenter, a firm that provided computer services, and in 1982, he co-founded Computasoft, a company that developed financial software and was later renamed Dealogic PLC. He served as Chairman of Dealogic till 2014 and Executive Chairman of Computacenter from 1981 to 1997.
Subsequently, in 1998, Sir Peter donated £22.5 million to The Ogden Charitable Trust with the goal of assisting intelligent but underprivileged children.
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