biography
| name: |
Brierley, Sir Ronald (Alfred)
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pronunciation:
[briyerlee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1937– )
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| biography:
| Businessman, born in Wellington, New Zealand. Educated in Wellington, in 1961 he founded Brierley Investments Ltd, becoming its chairman (1961–89) and president (1989– ). This was an entrepreneurial enterprise designed to acquire control of already substantial companies and to improve their commercial performance. Following a programme of often audacious but generally well-planned takeovers and mergers, and rejecting the pejorative label of ‘corporate raider’, he built his firm into a multi-billion-dollar operation. By the time he resigned as chairman, BIL had extensive interests in Australia, Britain, and the USA as well as New Zealand. He became chairman of Tozer Kemsley & Millbourn (Holdings) in 1986, and was knighted in 1988. |
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