James Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick

Geoffrey Robert James " Jamie " Borwick, 5th Baron Borwick ( born March 7, 1955) is a British entrepreneur and manager. Brown is the owner and Chairman of the manufacturer of electric vans Modec in Coventry.

Life

He was Chief Executive from 1987 to 2001 and then to 2003 Chairman of the British holding Manganese Bronze Holdings plc, where he also held the largest block of shares. The most famous subsidiary of Manganese Bronze is the London Taxis International ( LTI ), a manufacturer of several series of black London taxis. In London Taxis International, where he was also Chairman, there was in collaboration with Azure Dynamics two test projects for the construction of electric vehicles, a London black cab and a pickup truck project eMercury. LTI decided to focus on the production of taxis. After a failed attempt to take over the company completely, Jamie Borwick resigned as chairman and eventually sold the block of shares of his family to institutional investors. Instead he founded in 2004 in Coventry Modec as a manufacturer of vans with electric drive.

Jamie Borwick is a Non-Executive Director of Hansa Trust plc, Managing Director of Love Lane Investments Ltd and Chairman of Federated Trust Corporation Ltd..

He is also Chairman of the Route2Mobility Ltd., which manufactures wheelchairs for the UK 's Motability Scheme.

In addition, he is Chairman of Oxis Energy Ltd, developed the batteries.

Volunteering he interacts with the board of the Low Carbon Vehicle Partnership.

Private life

Jamie Borwick is the son of Robin Sandbach Borwick, a son of Robert Geoffrey Borwick, 3rd Baron Borwick, and Patricia Garnett McAlpine, a daughter of Edwin McAlpine.

Since 1981 he has been with Victoria Lorne Peta, Baroness Borwick ( born Victoria Lorne Peta Poore, born April 26, 1956) married a British businesswoman and conservative politician. The couple has three sons and a daughter.

Policy

After Borwick 2007 by his uncle, James Hugh Myles Borwick, 4th Baron Borwick, who had no male heir, the title was inherited as a 5th Baron Borwick, of Hawkshead in the County of Lancaster, he was on 17 July 2013 as the Erbadeliger ( Hereditary peer ) elected to the House of Lords. He went there in the footsteps of Hugh Mackay, 14th Baron Reay.