Justin Packshaw

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

Career

A soldier for eight years in the 4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Royal_Dragoon_Guards] , 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 [http://www.wandpartners.com/] , 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 [http://www.deroemer.com/]

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 [http://jeremy.denning.users.btopenworld.com/] , skied and climbed widely. In 1990 he represented Britain in the Whitbread Round-the-World Yacht Race [http://www.volvooceanrace.org/index.aspx?bhcp=1] . In 2005 he and Christina Franco took part and won a 450-mile race to the 1996 position of the Magnetic North Pole [http://polarrace.com/home/] .

In April 2008 he went to the Geographic North Pole with David Hempleman-Adams and Rune Gjeldnes. In December 2008 he is taking part in the inaugural South Pole Race [http://www.amundsenomega3southpolerace.com/] , where teams cover the last 430 nautical miles to the Geographic South Pole on foot. The team will be competing for Great Britain against an international line up of teams including New Zealand, Norway, Russia and the USA.

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

External links

de Roemer Fashion's website [http://www.deroemer.com]