Lord O’Neill raises 10,000 for children’s charity

Children’s health charity MedEquip4Kids was delighted to welcome Jim O’Neill, Lord O’Neill of Gatley, to host a breakfast business at the Radisson Edwardian Hotel in Manchester in aid of the charity. The event was attended by over 100 guests from the business community, raising nearly £10,000 for in the charity in ticket sales and donations on the day.

Based in Manchester, MedEquip4Kids improves children’s healthcare by providing equipment and facilities not available from limited NHS resources.

Once breakfast and coffee were served, MedEquip4Kids chairman Brian White welcomed Lord O’Neill and gave a brief introduction to his many impressive achievements. After graduating from Sheffield University, Lord O’Neill studied for a PhD at Surrey and went on to become a renowned economist, working for various banks including 15 years at Goldman Sachs Division of Asset Management. He is especially well known for developing the acronym BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India and China), a group of countries considered to be at a similar stage of newly advanced economic development. In 2011 he was named by Bloomberg Markets magazine as one of the 50 most influential financial professionals worldwide.