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Justin Packshaw, (born 13 March 1965 in London) is an English entrepreneur and adventurer. [edit]

Career A soldier for eight years in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards [1], he left the army and took a Masters Degree in Business at Edinburgh University. Packshaw moved to New York in 1994 to work for Wand & Partners [2], before setting up his own business. Since 1996 he has coordinated a Round-the-World yacht race for News Corporation, started an advertising newspaper in the Mediterranean and is now managing director of the fashion label De roemer[3] [edit]

Personal life Adventure, sports and travel are an important feature to his life. Packshaw has travelled extensively; having ridden horses across Mongolia, driven a motorbike through East Africa, skydived [4], skied and climbed widely. In 1990 he represented Britain in the Whitbread Round-the-World Yacht Race [5]. In 2005 he and Christina Franco took part and won a 450-mile (720 km) race to the 1996 position of the Magnetic North Pole[6]. In April 2008 he went to the Geographic North Pole with David Hempleman-Adams and Rune Gjeldnes. In May 2011 he summited Mount Everest (www.deroemereverest.com) from Tibet along the infamous North Ridge. In 2012 he is taking five wounded soldiers to the Geographic South Pole to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Capt Scotts race against Amundsen in 1912.

He is married to the fashion designer Tamsin de Roemer and they have two children.

References Aluminate May 2011 [http://www.vogue.co.uk/news/2011/.../justin-packshaw-de-roemer-on-ever... Vogue 2011] [http://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/.../gq-editors-picks-de-roemer-climb-mount... GQ Magazine 2011] [http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/.../Taking-it-to-extremes.39166... The Sunday Times of Malta Sept 2011] [http://www.howtospendit.com/.../4529-diary-of-a-somebody-christopher-s... The Financial Times May 2011] Pro-motivate 2010 Preventicum 2011

[edit] External links

de Roemer Fashion's website de Roemer Everest Expedition