Event details
“An Evening With Peter Roberts, Founder of PureGym”
Wednesday 29th March
6.30pm – 8.30pm
The Clubhouse, 8 St. James’s Square
FREE for Members and their guests
Non-Members £25.00
Peter Roberts is the founder and non-Executive Director of Pure Gym, having been CEO from 2008 to 2015. Pure Gym is the UK’s largest gym operator which offers affordable, flexible and high quality access to fitness.
Peter is a serial entrepreneur with a distinguished career in the leisure industry. His earlier ventures include the formation of Langdale Group Plc which sold for £29m in 1989 to Scottish & Newcastle. He then set up nightclub company Luminar, which completed a successful IPO in 1998, food/pub chain Countrystyle Inns which was sold in 1995 for an IRR of 35% and a Venture Capital Fund with Lazard Ventures. In 2000 Peter founded Golden Tulip Hotels, a budget hotel group which was sold to Whitbread in 2008. In 2015 Peter was named a winner in the EY Entrepreneur of the Year awards and overall winner for the North of England.
Peter has recently started two new businesses in the leisure sector.
Please join us for an exciting evening where we will hear about Peter’s success story!