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Frederick "Freddie" Achom (born 22 January 1974) is a Nigerian-born British businessman based between Paris, New York and London. He is the co-founder and chairman of the Rosemont Group, a private investment group with a portfolio of companies with interests in solar energy deployment, biotechnology, web based technology platforms, and property development. He is also the founder and co-owner of several exclusive members-only clubs in London, including Jalouse,   Crystal and The Scotch.

Achom was featured as one of the 1000 most influential Londoners in the Evening Standard, in 2010 and again in 2011. In 2013, Achom was listed as one of the top 100 most important business people of African or Caribbean heritage in the UK Powerlist. Since 1982 Achom has lived in London, England. He is also the founder of Rosemont Group Foundation.

Personal life
The youngest boy of a family of 3 boys and 1 girl, he spent his early years living in Lagos. His father is a businessman and a shareholder of Inland Bank of Nigeria.

Early career
Achom began his career at a variety of different private sector businesses including a financial services company, a property surveying firm and a sales & marketing company. He would eventually establish his own business development and strategic funding agency aimed at SME's, along with several partners, called City Business Partners Limited. City Business Partners Limited ceased trading as Limited company in August 1998, while Achom and some of the original partners formed a partnership entity with an identical name. City Business Partners was sold a few years later to the EGC Group for a figure said to be in the region of 9 million pounds.

Legal issues
In 1999 Achom, his business partner Anthony Grant and several others were committed for trial in Magistrates Court, charged with conspiracy to defraud various businesses by promising that they could help the businesses get EU grants for a fee. Being convicted of fraud in Southwark Crown Court in July 2000, Achom & his fellow defendants were sentenced to a year's prison term. Achom and Grant were both disqualified from holding UK directorships for eleven years.

Achom's first venture in the investment sector was in 2001 when he co-founded Boington & Frederick's with Grant. It was one of the first alternative investment advisories focused on fine wine as an alternative asset to traditional investments such as equities and bonds. Boington & Fredericks was wound up in the public interest on 16th January 2002. In May 2002 the Official Receivers summary showed an estimated total deficiency of £228,747. No wine was allocated to clients after October 2001.

Members clubs and investment firms
In 2005 Achom acquired controlling interest in the Bordeaux Wine Company, the company was restructured and for the past decade has traded as a partnership offering services specifically to high net-worth individuals and institutions.

In 2005, Achom co-founded Crystal members-only club, The club was launched in the Fitzrovia area of London's West End and later expanded on an international scale. Affiliate clubs under the same name were opened in St Tropez, Cannes, Lebanon and Dubai.

Achom co-owns Jalouse members club in Mayfair's Hanover Square, along with Alex Nicholl and Moruf Yoozooph. having launched Jalouse in 2008 during the start of the global financial crisis. The members-only club, with its award winning Fendi interior designer, was the recipient of several awards, including the Best Club at the London Club and Bar Awards in 2009 and again in 2010.

In 2012 Achom along with business partner Alex Nicholl re-launched The Scotch at 13 Mason's Yard in Mayfair,  the site of the  club formerly known as The Scotch of St James. The Scotch has been featured in Vanity Fair, New York Times and Vogue since its reopening.

Achom co-owned Bennett Oyster, Bar & Brasserie, with Ray Duhaney creator of Cheyne Walk Brasserie. In 2013 Bennett Oyster, Bar & Brasserie was closed and taken over by chef and restaurateur Gordon Ramsay and has relaunched the site as the London House.

In 2002 Frederick Achom founded Rosemont Group Capital Partners (Rosemont Group), an offshore based investment group. Rosemont Group's primary focus is joint venture investments and equity funding for technology start ups and growth stage development, green energy services, financial services and hospitality.

In 2012, Achom re-aligned Rosemont Group's core investment focus to opportunities in early and growth stage technology. He is a shareholder in the Mumbai stock exchange listed renewable energy services company Communication Power Engineering Company (CPEC). Founded in 1942,CPEC specialised in the manufacturing of gear boxes within the power and engineering sectors until the passing of its founder in 2010. The company now focuses on solar energy deployment in India and Africa. Currently, Achom also acts as an investment partner in various early stage digital technology companies including the UK's leading parking application AppyParking. and Vivid Technologies, a Pakistan based customer service company. He was featured in the May 2015 edition of Forbes Africa having raised a £9.2m fund for technology investments in Africa.