Iain Rawlinson is an English businessman and charity trustee. He has held a number of senior leadership positions in the financial services, resources, travel, social impact investment and philanthropic sectors. His activities are organised under Rawlinson Partners Limited. Career Rawlinson has a background in banking, investment and business. After attending the University of Cambridge he was called to the Bar in 1981 before joining Lazard Brothers and later Flemings. He spent six years in South Africa which was followed by leadership of the Fleming Family & Partners business in London. He is an independent director of a number of companies and is now a non-executive director of The Royal Bournemouth and Christchurch Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Parkmead Group PLC where he is also Remuneration Committee chair. In an advisory capacity for the Mantegazza family, Rawlison was Executive Chairman of the Monarch Group from 2009 to 2014, during which he initiated a reorganisation and modernisation of the UK-based travel group. Throughout his Chairmanship Rawlinson lead two successful turnarounds of the Group in 2010 and 2013 without redundancy programmes or cost to the public purse. In the period during the second turnaround from 2011–2013, the oil price was US$115/bbl. He believed that the correct industry response to the competitive pressures experienced in European commercial aviation in 2014 was consolidation of carriers, creating alliances which would result in efficiencies and the safeguarding of employment and pensions. He initiated "Project Sandringham" in early 2014 when the industry faced significant challenges, which involved facilitating discussions with potential investment and merger partners. In 2014, a new senior airline executive was appointed, and a three-year-long negotiation with Boeing to update the airline's fleet with Boeing 737MAX aircraft was concluded - this deal being announced in at the Farnborough Airshow in July of that year. Rawlinson built up and communicated a distinct investment case and track record for each of the Monarch Group's three businesses to allow the underlying value of each to be demonstrated. In 2014 it emerged that alongside the Mantegazza family, Rawlinson had allowed a £220 million pension blackhole to develop, which latterly lead to Dean Street Advisors being appointed to advise the Board on a more proactive process to support the business with either merger or investment partners. Dean Street introduced Greybull Capital, who eventually bought the business in 2014 for £1, while Rawlinson was also pursuing merger discussions with Thomas Cook. Rawlinson