Lord Mendoza

Lord Mendoza CBE has served as a member of our Board of Directors since June 2015. Lord Mendoza is Provost of Oriel College, Oxford University. He has been a member of the House of Lords since October 2020. In 1986, Lord Mendoza founded the custom marketing and publishing agency Forward, subsequently renamed Bookmark Content and Communications, a subsidiary of WPP plc. Lord Mendoza served from 2016 to 2020 as a non-executive director of the Department of Digital Culture, Media & Sport within the United Kingdom government and since 2020 has served as the Commissioner for Cultural Recovery and Renewal within that Department. Lord Mendoza also served as the chairman of Victoria Private Investment Office, a London-based investment advisory firm, from 2010 to 2018. He received an M.A. in Geography from Oxford University. Our Board of Directors believes Lord Mendoza’s extensive experience with investments and public service provides him with the qualifications and skills to serve on our Board of Directors.