Jim Slater (accountant)

Jim Slater
Born(1929-03-13)13 March 1929
Heswall, Cheshire, England
Died18 November 2015(2015-11-18) (aged 86)[1]
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Chartered accountant
Businessman
Employer(s)Park Royal Vehicles
ACV Group
AEC
Leyland Motors
Known forSlater Walker
Capitalist column in The Sunday Telegraph
author, The Zulu Principle
SpouseHelen (1965–2015, his death)
Children4, including Mark

James Derrick Slater (13 March 1929 – 18 November 2015) was a British accountant, investor and business writer. Slater rose to prominence in the 1970s as a businessman and financier, who was the founding Chairman of Slater Walker, an investment bank and conglomerate which collapsed in the secondary banking crisis of 1973–75.

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