Who runs Shearwater Energy, the latest bidder on the market? The founder of the company is Tom Parks, a 32-year-old Civil Engineering graduate from the University of Warwick who has had several burgeoning firms. After a summer in 2010 working as an analyst at Goldman Sachs, one of the companies at the heart of the 2008 financial crash, Parks got to work starting his own business. Parks made his fortune through the notoriously predatory payday loans industry, with one of his companies specifically targeting hard-up university students. Based in Leamington Spa, Smart-Pig.com was founded by Parks and Shreiff Benaziza in 2012 “by students for students” as a noble cause, the company blog says, because the idea was apparently “a spin-off from a protest against short-term lending” to go “head-to-head with the big, ugly giants.”
Voice Wales 9th Feb 2021 read more »