Justin Packshaw



Justin Packshaw (13 March 1965, London) is an English entrepreneur and adventurer.

Career
An officer in the British Army (4th/7th Royal Dragoon Guards) for eight years where he was involved throughout the first Gulf War in 1990 and was Equerry to HRH The Duchess of Kent. He left the Army and took a Masters Degree in Business at Edinburgh University. He is now the co-founder and Managing Director of the fashion label De Roemer.

Expeditions
In 1990 he represented Britain in the Whitbread Round the World Yacht Race and was awarded the Bollinger award for outstanding crewman. In 1996 he rode horses through Mongolia in conjunction with the National University of Mongolia in search of the Tsaatan reindeer tribes. In 1999 he co-lead a motorbike expedition through East Africa. In 2005 he and his team-mate, Christina Franco won a 450mile man-hauling race to the 1996 position of the Magnetic North Pole. In 2008 he went to the Geographic North Pole with David Hempleman-Adams and Rune Gjeldnes. In 2011 he summited Mount Everest from the North side (Tibet) along the North East Ridge. In November 2012 he co-led an expedition taking three wounded soldiers from the British Army to the Geographic South Pole.

Other work
Outside of running De Roemer he works as a motivational speaker, giving speeches worldwide to corporations, schools and other organisations. He is also part of Hewlett-Packard's worldwide 'Influencer Advisory Board'. He is an Ambassador for the British Governments 'GREAT' Campaign and also The Duke of Edinburgh Awards (DofE).

Charity
All his expeditions raise money for charity in particular raising awareness for injured service personnel and educating children to the benefits of the outdoors. Expeditions that he has been involved in have raised over £2m to date.