Peter Cruddas, Baron Cruddas, founded CMC Markets in 1989 and grew the business rapidly, launching one of the world’s first online trading platforms in 1996. Today it is a FTSE 250 company with over £250 million in net operating income and 750 employees. Lord Cruddas was co‑treasurer of the Conservative Party from June 2011 until March 2012 and was a co-founder of the pro‑Brexit campaign group Vote Leave. In 2006, he founded the Peter Cruddas Foundation, which aims to benefit disadvantaged and disengaged young people in society.
The son of a meat market porter and an office cleaner, Peter Cruddas left Shoreditch Comprehensive School at the age of fifteen with no qualifications and a part-time job as a milkman. Today he's Lord Cruddas of Shoreditch, the founder of a £1.5 billion financial trading company...
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