Jeremy Isaacs

Founding Partner

JRJ Group

London, UK

Biography

Jeremy Isaacs CBE is a Founding Partner of JRJ Group, a private equity firm with a focus on financial services, established in 2009.

The company is a growth-oriented investor and provides capital, deep operational expertise and expert strategic guidance to its portfolio companies.

Jeremy drives the company strategy in relation to the fund and portfolio and plays a central role in developing the firm’s external collaborative relationships.

Previously, Jeremy was the Chief Executive Officer of Lehman Brothers in Europe, the Middle East and Asia. He had started his career with Goldman Sachs and was Head of European Equity Derivative Trading before moving to Lehman Brothers.

A former stock market trader and senior investment banker, Jeremy also runs his own charitable trust The J Isaacs Charitable Trust.

Through various not-for-profit enterprises Jeremy puts his economic and capitalist skills to work via responsible and sustainable philanthropy.

In May 2019, Jeremy received a Doctor of Philosophy Honoris Causa from the Haifa University, Israel. Additionally, he is an Honorary Fellow of London Business School.He was also appointed CBE in the 2015 Queen’s Birthday Honours for his services to the NHS.

Jeremy Isaacs’ Newsfeed

Marex Spectron Buys Marquee Oil as Consolidation Heats up

Marex has expanded aggressively since being taken private in 2010 by JRJ Ventures, the private equity group founded by former Lehman executives Roger Nagioff and Jeremy Isaacs. The past year saw Marex Spectron also solidify its ‎position across global commodities markets, including ‎seeing its volumes maintain the top spot on the London ‎Metal Exchange (LME), as well as on the LME Select ‎electronic platform.

Euro Money

Jeremy Isaacs: Lehman was the wrong option

Jeremy Isaacs started as a blue-button at Smith New Court (later acquired by Merrill Lynch in 1995), working on the London Stock Exchange as a trainee trader at one of the biggest stock jobbers. He was in at the start of equity options in the early 1980s. “No one had very detailed experience in trading options, and at a very young age I was better at it than most people, simply, I think, because I was quite numerate.”

JRJ Group

Founding Partner

Jan 2009 - Present

At JRJ Group, Jeremy is closely involved with the implementation and guidance of fund strategy, as well as the development and execution of portfolio company strategy. He is also central to the development and maintenance of JRJ Group’s extensive financial industry relationships with senior personnel across the institutional landscape, as well as with regulators and governments.

Lehman Brothers

CEO for Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific

May 1996 - Aug 2008

London, UK

Jeremy held senior executive positions beginning in 1996. He was appointed CEO for Europe and the Middle East in 1999 and was additionally named CEO of Asia-Pacific in 2000, (positions he held simultaneously until 2008).

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Current Board Positions

Landscape Acquisition Holdings Ltd

Board Member

Nov 2017 - Jan 2020

London, UK

A special purpose acquisition company.

Nomad Foods

Board of Directors

Feb 2016 - Present

London, UK

Nomad Foods is a leading packaged foods company who aim to build a global portfolio of best-in-class food companies and brands within the frozen category and across the broader food sector.

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Previous Board Positions

Bridges Ventures

Advisory Board Member

Aug 2008 - Mar 2018

London, UK

Bridges Ventures invest in solutions to pressing social and environmental challenges via growth business, property, social business and outcomes contracts.

Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust

Non-Executive Director

Dec 2003 - Sep 2016

London, UK

We are an NHS Trust of 10,000 people, providing care for around a million people every year, in our five hospitals and a growing number of community services in north west London.

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Philanthropy

Noah's Ark Children's Hospice

Chair of Trustees

Jan 2010 - Present

London, UK

Noah’s Ark Children’s Hospice is a community-based hospice service providing support for children and young people with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions and their families in North and Central London and Hertsmere.