Andrew Mills

Andrew Mills (businessman)
Born	Andrew David Mills August 1963
Alma mater	Leeds University, Cass Business School
Member of	Transparency Task Force
Adviser In office October 2017 - Present Employer Board of Trade  Senior Board Adviser In office March 2020 - Present Employer Ayanda Capital  Founder In office 5 February 2019 - Present Employer Prospermill  CEO  In office 17 August 2015 - 29 October 2018 Employer Virtualstock  GM & Vice President,  Enterprise Business,  Europe In office February 2013 - April 2014 Employer Samsung Electronics  GM & Global Account Executive supporting Novartis In office January 2010 - December 2012 Employer IBM  GM & Vice President In office July 2006 - November 2009 Employer EDS & HP (following acquisition)  Director In office January 2001 - June 2006 Employer KPMG UK Preceded by Shabtai Shavit  Director In office January 2001 - June 2006 Employer Atos (following acquisition of KPMG Consulting) Preceded by Shabtai Shavit  GM & Vice President In office September 1999 - January 2001 Employer Zefer  Director In office October 1994 - September 1999 Employer Cambridge Technology Partners  Account Director In office December 1986 - October 1994 Employer LBMS Plc

Andrew Mills is a British businessman who is an Adviser to the UK Board of Trade and to Ayanda Capital which specialises in currency trading, offshore property, private equity and trade financing.

Prospermill

In February 2019, Andrew Mills and his wife Caroline founded Prospermill which, according to Jolyon Maugham, "is a £100 company, boxfresh, which has never filed any accounts. It has no demonstrable knowledge of PPE (or anything else for that matter)."

PPE contract

On 5 August 2020, The Times reported:

Ministers wasted at least £150 million buying masks with the wrong kind of straps from a little-known family investment company, The Times can reveal.

Health officials signed a £252 million contract to buy masks for frontline healthcare staff from Ayanda Capital in April in a deal brokered by a government adviser who also advises the company’s board.

The contract included 50 million high-strength “FFP2” medical masks costing an estimated £150 million to £180 million and amounting to the entire health system’s expected consumption for a year, as well as 150 million cheaper “IIR” masks.

Secretive tax haven

On 8 July 2020, Craig Murray wrote deploring the fact that a £250 million contract for COVID-19 personal protection equipment (PPE) had inexplicably been awarded to the “family office” Ayanda Capital, an investment house for private wealth tax avoidance and controlled by Timothy Piers Horlick, who owns it through a Mauritius company. (Mauritius is now a notorious tax haven; it offers zero tax and keeps company officers and owners secret.):

Intriguingly, Tim Horlick has a degree in PPE from Oxford University.

Creaming off a fortune

On 6 August 2020, Craig Murray updated the PPE contract:

We now learn £150 million of face masks delivered are unusable as they do not meet the required standards.

I have just seen this absolutely astonishing thread from Jolyon Maugham at 6.25am this morning. It really is mind-blowing. Not only did the “adviser”, named as Andrew Mills, set this all up, he himself established an intermediary company (Prospermill) in the transaction to cream off a fortune.

We do not just need a public inquiry. We need people to go to prison. All those involved in the Ayanda Capital PPE contract would be a good start.

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