Dominic Shorthouse

Dominic Shorthouse
Occupation	Private investor, founder of Englefield Capital LLP
Known for	Channel 5, Cognita

Dominic Shorthouse is a British private investor, founder of private equity business Englefield Capital LLP and a former partner at Warburg Pincus. His notable investments include the creation of the UK terrestrial TV channel Channel 5 and Cognita, a UK-based private schools operator. He is a member of the advisory board of ManoCap, which invests in post-conflict African states, and a member of the Advisory Board of Lennox Investment Management, investing in prime Central London residential property.

Shorthouse graduated from the University of Oxford with a master's degree in Latin and Greek literature and philosophy, and holds an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business. Prior to Stanford, Shorthouse worked in the investment-banking group at Morgan Stanley and in 1987 interned at Golder, Thoma & Cressey in Chicago.

Before founding Englefield, Shorthouse was a partner at global private equity firm Warburg Pincus. From the mid-1990s, he served as co-head of Warburg's London office and made several notable deals, including a founding investment in Channel 5, the sale of mortgage broker John Charcol to Bradford and Bingley for £100m and deals in Aegis, London Weekend Television and Esprit Telecom.

Shorthouse was a non-executive director of several Warburg portfolio companies. Overall, he was involved in the investment of over $2 billion in the UK and Europe, in sectors such as financial services, manufacturing, real estate, sport, and technology, media and telecommunications.

While at Warburg, Shorthouse participated in the winning bid to create Channel 5, the final terrestrial television network to launch on British TV. Shorthouse worked on the bid alongside Lord Hollick, Greg Dyke and Ferd Kayser.

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