Peter Simon

Mr. Simon is the Founder of Monsoon and Accessorize, which has grown from a single store in London’s Beauchamp Place in 1973 into two global fashion high street chains with a presence in more than 36 countries. The Group was a public company from 1998 to 2008, when it was taken private again. The company won the Queen’s Award for Export in 2007. In 1994 Mr. Simon founded The Monsoon Accessorize Trust, a registered charity that funds education, healthcare, and income generation projects primarily for disadvantaged women and children in Asia.

Having generated his wealth from fashion, Mr. Simon now backs a wide range of fast-growing businesses and talented areas in a number of sectors, spanning multiple sectors such as: biopharma; data technology; e-commerce; fashion and other direct to consumer; fin-tech; and thematic science development sectors such as ‘cultivated meat’ – where his investment vehicle, ‘Adena Estate Inc’, is often the lead, or majority investor.

The development of new pharmaceutical solutions to serious medical conditions is something that Mr. Simon feels passionately about and Adena’s investment in Équilibre is the latest such investment.

Away from private equity, Mr. Simon also has a substantial portfolio of commercial property centred primarily in London’s fashionable Notting Hill, W11. Amongst these properties is The Electric Cinema on Portobello Road, where Mr. Simon restored the oldest purpose-built cinema in England, and which is now managed by the highly successful global restaurant and members' club group, Soho House.

Mr. Simon’s other passion is in the arts, where he has identified and supported many emerging artists. His collection is especially known for its holdings of works from Central and South America, Africa, and Asia. In addition, Mr. Simon is an honorary trustee of the Tate Foundation, which manages Britain’s Tate galleries, as well as being a member of the Global Patrons Council for Art Basel.