Sponser Profile: Charles Dunstone

It's looking ever more likely that Charles Dunstone, CEO of the Carphone Warehouse is going in charge of Fulwood High by September 2009. The proposed sponsor will be investing £2 million into the school, allowing him free reign over the curriculum, uniform, hiring and firing of members of staff and their salaries. I think we'd better find out a bit more about him.

Photo by Adrian Purser

• Born November 21st 1964 Charles Dunstone was brought up near Saffron Walden in Essex, and attended Uppingham School in Leicestershire.
  
• In his A-Levels he scraped a C in history a D in geography and an E in economics.
• After leaving school he got a job with Computer company NEC and allegedly enjoyed it so much he abandoned his plans to go to Liverpool University to do a degree in business.
  
• He co-founded the Carphone Warehouse in 1989 with David Ross using £6,000 of his savings. The pair started out by selling phones out of their Marylebone flat in central London to plumbers and builders.
• He is also a Non-Executive Director of HBOS PLC and The Daily Mail General Trust and Chairman of the Princes Trust Trading Board.
• An survey in the Observer rated him as the 124th most powerful person in the UK.
• At 44 he remains single. He says that he wants to have children in the future but "hasn't found the one yet".
  
• He was ranked 83rd in the 2008 Sunday Times Richlist with an estimated £904 million personal wealth.
• Mr Dunstone enjoys sailing and listening to Jack Johnson