In 1998, after 17 highly successful but strenuous years in the
City, most recently as global head of investment banking at
Deutsche Morgan Grenfell, Maurice Thompson opted for a break.
During his year off he went horse riding in Pakistan and skied the
haute route from Chamonix to Zermatt. Now 41 and back at a desk as
one of five founding partners of European Digital Partners (EDP),
Thompson is doing what, professionally at least, he enjoys most.
That is "working directly with companies and having some impact on
them, doing deals with clients and helping them to build their
organizations" - as opposed to "sitting in the middle of an
84,000-strong organization".
Thompson had perceived that "beneath the radar screens of these
big behemoths that I was all too familiar with, there was a very
interesting emerging economy that was not properly serviced". After
helping his friend Andrew Wilkinson, one of the...
