The dastardly Mr Deedes
Dainty former bP boss lord browne relinquishes his chairmanship of london’s Tate Gallery in July. There will be no shortage of applicants to replace him. The plum post is much coveted by City grandees. Most recent incumbents are former M&s chairman lord Myners and ex-blackstone chair sir david Verey. it’s two days work a month and unpaid, so George ‘six jobs’ osborne won’t be interested. Tom Hayes, the ex-Citigroup trader serving an 11-year jail sentence for rigging Libor, is the subject of a sympathetic book by Wall Street Journal hack David Enrich, called The Spider Network, which depicts the gawky scruff as a pitiable figure rather than criminal mastermind. Hayes, 37, certainly sounds an odd fish. When Goldman Sachs tried to tempt him away from his job at UBS in 2008 on a vastly improved £3.5m deal, he demanded assurances he could wear polo shirts in the office rather than a suit. Baffled executives at Goldman agreed, but Hayes declined the job anyway. Former disney boss Michael eisner to buy Portsmouth football club? He claims to have been a long-term fan of english football. An archetypal, hot-breathed media mogul – bombardier private jet, billion dollar fortune, sprawling mansion in bel Air – eisner, 75, should at least enliven life down on the solent. Old Etonian smoothie Nick Wheeler, 52, who’s amassed a £400m fortune from his Charles Tyrwhitt shirt empire, on his plans for the business: ‘There is no end game. The company is like my fifth child. I’ve got four other children and I’d sell any of those before I sell this one. I tell my kids that.’ That’s the spirit! barclaycard chief executive Amer sajed has announced he’s stepping down in order to campaign for civil liberties in America. Cheery, New York-based fatherof-four sajed, 56, who will probably be relinquishing a seven-figure pay package, is a first-generation Pakistani immigrant with an intriguing story. He arrived in the us from lahore, aged 19, armed with just £500, landing his first job cleaning lavatories in a branch of Mcdonald’s.