Lord Rupert
de Mauley
Rupert de Mauley pursued parallel civilian and military careers
for 30 years from 1975 to 2005. His final appointment in the
Territorial Army was as a lieutenant colonel commanding an armoured
regiment (2003 – 2004). His period in command was characterised by
operational success and high levels of recruitment. He is co-author
of a seminal article on battle casualty replacement in the British
Army Review. He has visited Iraq and Afghanistan in military liaison
and fact finding capacities.
As a civilian, he qualified as a chartered accountant in 1980 and
from 1983 to 1999 worked as an investment banker (Samuel Montagu
until 1993, then Standard Chartered), principally in mergers and
acquisitions. He spent nine years at main board level, leading some
of the banks’ largest transactions. He worked in Hong Kong from 1985
to 1988 and Singapore from 1994 to 1999. Working in a dozen Asian
countries he built a regional M&A business for Standard Chartered,
for which he established and maintained a position at the top of the
Asian M&A league tables. He became the managing director of the
merchant bank in 1996 and led the establishment of a successful
corporate rescue activity following the Asian debt crisis.
In 1999 he became joint founder, controlling shareholder and
chairman of FixIT Worldwide Limited, a company providing IT support
to professional businesses and financial services companies, growing
profits every year and selling the business to a quoted company in
2006. In 2005 he was elected to the House of Lords and quickly
promoted to the Conservative front bench as a whip and spokesman on
trade and industry. He was subsequently shadow minister at the
Cabinet Office and is now shadow minister for Business, Innovation
and Skills and for Universities and Further Education. He is also
the Treasury whip.
Outside Parliament he runs a forestry business from his farm on the
Oxfordshire/ Gloucestershire border, carries out public speaking
engagements and is a non executive director. He also rode
successfully as an amateur steeplechase jockey.