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| Birth name | Andrew James Ronald Lindsay | ||||||||||||||
| Born | (1977-03-25)25 March 1977 (age 47) Scotland | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 6 ft 1 in (1.85 m) | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | |||||||||||||||
| Country | Great Britain | ||||||||||||||
| Sport | Men'srowing | ||||||||||||||
| Event | Eights | ||||||||||||||
| College team | Oxford University Boat Club | ||||||||||||||
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Andrew James Ronald LindsayMBE (born 25 March 1977) is a British Olympic gold medal-winningrower and the co-CEO ofTelecom Plus, which ownsUtility Warehouse.
Lindsay was educated atEton College, where he first started rowing, and read geography atBrasenose College, Oxford.[1][2] He rowed in theOxford blue boat inThe Boat Race three times, once as president of the boat club; and in The Childe of Hale, the First VIII ofBrasenose College Boat Club.
In 1994, Lindsay won bronze at theWorld Rowing Junior Championships inMunich.[3]
He won a gold medal in theeight event at the2000 Summer Olympics inSydney, as a member of the British rowing team.[4] He was appointedMember of the Order of the British Empire in the2001 New Year Honours, for services to rowing.[5]
After his Olympic success, Lindsay announced his retirement from competitive rowing and went into business.[3][6] He worked forGoldman Sachs for three years, and later was managing director of electrical retailer Ryness Electrical where he took part in a management buyout in 2006.[7]
He joinedTelecom Plus in 2007; he was the chief operating officer in 2009[7] and was promoted to chief executive officer in July 2010.[8] Telecom Plus is amulti-utility which trades largely asUtility Warehouse[9] and is a constituent of theFTSE 250 index. Lindsay held the CEO role jointly with Stuart Burnett from 2021, and in 2023 the company announced that Lindsay would step down at the 2024 AGM.[10]
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