Industry & Services >> CEO Interviews >> February 8, 1999
JAMIE BORWICK was born at the Dorchester Hotel in London in 1955 and
educated at Eton College. In 1972, as an apprentice bricklayer he joined
Sir Robert McAlpine & Sons Ltd, his family building firm. He lived in
Scotland for some years, working on a large power station and North Sea
oil platform projects. He left in 1981 to live in London and worked with
Federated Trust Corporation Limited, a private banking and investment
business and to work with Manganese Bronze Holdings PLC, a fast growing
engineering business of which he became Chief Executive in 1987.
Manganese Bronze Holdings is a company best known for the manufacture of
the traditional London taxi and the new TX1 London taxi. It is also
involved in the distribution and finance of the taxi in Great Britain.
Less well known is the rapidly expanding automotive components business,
which atomises metal powders and makes sintered components and stainless
steel castings. In addition he is Non-executive Chairman of Finsbury
Trust plc, a quoted Investment Trust and a Non-executive Director of
Adam & Harvey Group plc, which is a trading company specialising in
Africa and the Far East. He is also a member of the Primary Markets
Committee of the London Stock Exchange and Chairman of the CBI Smaller
Quoted Companies Working Group. He married in 1981 and has three sons,
aged 14, 11 and 1, and a daughter aged 8 and lives in Kensington,
London. His wife is a director of an exhibition organising company,
responsible for Britain's most successful antiques exhibition. His
hobbies include travel and computers. He is a trustee of two charities,
one concerned with the education of deaf children and the other funds
research into the causes of heart malformations in infants. Profile
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