Tom Singh

London, UK

Founder and Non-Executive Board Member

New Look

Biography

Tom Singh, OBE, is the Founder of New Look, the fashion clothing retailer with over 900 stores worldwide. New Look is one of the UK’s best known fashion retail brands which began back in 1969 with a single store in Taunton.

Tom is a founder member of the Social Investment Task Force, the Chairman of the UK Advisory Council for the British Asian Trust and remains active as a philanthropist and social investor.

Through Rianta Capital, the family office, the Singh Family are focused on the pursuit of a broad range of investment objectives encompassing retail, real estate and private equity.

Tom Singh’s Newsfeed

26 Jul 2018

Designer Osman Yousefzada talks to Shelley Carter

Osman went down a fashion route and studied, somewhat fleetingly, at Central Saint Martins after graduating in anthropology from Cambridge. Dropping out of the fashion design course, Osman took a job at Joseph and soon after was offered £5,000 to launch his own collection by Tom Singh, founder of New Look who saw his potential.

20 Jul 2018

Boohoo family invest close to £1m in fashion tech platform

It is the latest cash boost for the London-based start-up which has already attracted a string of industry backers including New Look's Tom Singh.

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Tom Singh’s Background

New Look

Founder and Non-Executive Board Member

Jan 1969 - Present

London, UK

Tom founded the New Look chain of women’s fashion stores in 1969 and currently holds the position of Non-Executive Board Member.

Rianta Capital Ltd.

Consultant

Zürich, CH

Rianta Capital Ltd, an investment advisory to the Singh Family Trust, is focused on the pursuit of a broad range of investment objectives encompassing retail, real estate and private equity either directly or through funds.

Other Business Interests

The Artha Initiative

Trustee

2006 - Present

Zürich, CH

The Artha Initiative, as part of Rianta Capital, is a program designed to help the poor and marginalised in India to serve themselves and their environment through support of enterprise, social entrepreneurship, and the growth that comes from empowering people.

Social Investment Task Force

Founding Member

London, UK

Announced by Prime Minister David Cameron at the G8 Social Impact Investment Forum in 2013, the aim of the Social Impact Investment Taskforce was to catalyse the development of the social impact investment market.

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Tom Singh’s Education

University of Wales

International Politics and Geography