Justin Packshaw | |
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| Born | 13 March 1965 London, United Kingdom |
| Education | University of Edinburgh (MBA) |
| Occupation | Entrepreneur |
| Spouse | Tamsin de Roemer |
| Children | Lula & Blake |
| Website | justinpackshaw |
Justin James Packshaw MBE DL FRGS (born 13 March 1965) is an English entrepreneur, philanthropist and adventurer.
Packshaw was born on 13 March 1965 in London. [1] He was raised in Malta [2] where he attended St Edward's College before returning to the United Kingdom in 1975 to finish his schooling at Sandroyd School [3] and Woolverstone Hall. He completed a Master's in Business Administration at the University of Edinburgh in 1993. [4]
Packshaw served in the British Army for eight years, attending the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst [5] in 1985 before being commissioned into the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards [6] where he served in BAOR, Cyprus, Brunei and the first Gulf War. [2] He was Equerry to HRH The Duchess of Kent in 1992. He is a director of De Roemer, a luxury jewellery brand he co-founded with his wife, Tamsin de Roemer, in 2008. [2] [7] He is also chairman of travel company Joro Experiences. [8] Packshaw also delivers talks worldwide to businesses, corporations and schools on topics around achievement, leadership, and adaptability, [2] including a 2014 TEDx talk at the London School of Economics. [9] [10] [ better source needed ]
Packshaw participated in the 1989–1990 Whitbread Round the World Race, representing Great Britain. [1] In 1996, he crossed Mongolia on horseback searching for the nomadic Dukha people, a small Tuvan (Tozhu Tuvans) Turkic community of reindeer herders. In 1999, he motorbiked across East Africa. [1] In 2005, he won a 450-mile race to the North Pole and, in 2008, he helped guide 15-year-old Camilla Hempleman-Adams to ski the last degree to the Geographic North Pole. [1] In 2011, he summited Mount Everest, helping to raise £130,000 for Walking with the Wounded, The Warrior Program, and Alzheimer's Research UK. [11] In 2012, the centenary of Captain Robert Falcon Scott's Terra Nova Expedition, he led a team including three wounded veterans to the South Pole to raise money for Walking with the Wounded. [12] In 2014, led an expedition across the coast of Nigeria from Cameroon to Benin via jet ski. [13] That same year, Packshaw co-ordinated and led an expedition including two wounded veterans that followed the route of Sir Earnest Shackleton voyage of the James Caird from Antarctica to South Georgia to raise money for the Defence and National Rehabilitation Centre. [14] In 2015, he led a team of businessmen to the North Pole, raising more than £400,000 for The Prince's Trust, [15] and in 2017, he led a team to the South Pole that raised more than £685,000 for The Prince's Trust and the Roundhouse Trust. [7]
In 2021 Packshaw led a 57-day research expedition of Antarctica. [16] They started from Novolazarevskaya Station in Queen Maud Land and travelled through the interior 1,400 miles to the Geographic South Pole. With teammate Dr Jamie Facer-Childs the pair kite skied and man-hauled, unsupported across the ice. The team carried out research on climate change and also on human physiology and psychology[ citation needed ] working in collaboration with NASA, ESA and Stanford University.
Packshaw is a UK Ambassador for The Prince's Trust. [17] During the 2016 New Year Honours, he was made a Member of the Order of the British Empire 'for services to expeditions, youth development, and charity'. [18] In July 2016, he was commissioned a Deputy Lieutenant of Greater London., [19] [20] and was awarded [21] the Freedom of the City of London in 2018. In 2021 Packshaw was given a Lifetime Achievement award by the British Ex-Forces in Business Awards. [22]
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