ASOS co-founder and financier

Andrew Regan and ASOS

He provided the seed capital and the stock market shell that launched ASOS in 2001.

Andrew Regan was born on 14 December 1965 in Manchester. He is 60. He earned a PhD from Oxford Brookes University in 2014.

In his twenties he ran Cadismark, a household products business that Hobson plc bought in 1991. He then became Hobson's chief executive.

Regan was the original financier of ASOS. He invested £2.3m of seed capital when the business started in 2000 as As Seen on Screen. He reversed it into a shell company, and it listed on AIM in 2001. Nick Robertson led the company as chief executive from 2000 to 2015.

Since 2004 Regan has been chief executive of Corvus Capital. He founded the AIM-listed oil and gas investor Lodore Resources that year. He has also made North Pole trips in 2004, 2008 and 2014, and attempted a South Pole record in 2005.

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Where and when was Andrew Regan born?

Andrew Regan was born on 14 December 1965 in Manchester, England. He is 60 years old.

What is Andrew Regan's education?

Regan was awarded a PhD by Oxford Brookes University in 2014. His thesis was on predicting the S&P 500 with a bio-inspired algorithm.

What was Andrew Regan's role at ASOS?

Regan is a co-founder of ASOS and its original financier. He put in £2.3m of seed capital and reversed the company, then called As Seen on Screen, into a shell company that listed on AIM in 2001.

What else has Andrew Regan done?

He ran the household products business Cadismark, sold to Hobson plc in 1991, and became Hobson's chief executive. Since 2004 he has been chief executive of the investment company Corvus Capital. He has also led polar expeditions.