James Daunt

James Daunt is a British businessman. He is the founder of the Daunt Books chain, and since May 2011 has been managing director of the book chain Waterstone's.

Life

James Daunt was educated at Sherborne School before reading history at Cambridge University. After working in the United States as a banker for JP Morgan, he founded Daunt Books,^[1] a chain of six bookshops in London. In May 2011 he was appointed managing director of Waterstone's by the company's new owner, Alexander Mamut.^[2] The pair were listed at fourth place in a 2011 Guardian list of the top 100 people in the British books industry.^[3]

References

^ Kate Kellaway, James Daunt: 'I don't recognise that books are dead', The Guardian, 3 June 2011
^ James Hall, James Daunt parachuted in to run Waterstone's, The Daily Telegraph, 20 May 2011.
^ Books Power 100: James Daunt and Alexander Mamut | No 4, The Guardian, 24 September 2011

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