A select group of entertainment and media related businesses, unified by a passion for great storytelling.

Sir Lloyd Dorfman CBE

Chairman

Lloyd is an entrepreneur and philanthropist.

He is Chairman of Dorfman Media Holdings, formed in 2018, a media company focused on film and TV finance, production and related service companies. He is also the Chairman and co-founder (2014) of Doddle, the retail click and collect IT platform.

He has a variety of other business interests. He is a shareholder of The Office Group, the leading flexible office company, having been its Chairman and majority shareholder from 2010 to 2017 (until its sale to Blackstone in June 2017). He is also a Shareholder and Board Director of the London Theatre Company. He sits on the Business Advisory Board of the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan.

He is the Founder of the Travelex Group, the world’s largest retailer of foreign exchange, which he started in 1976 from one small shop in central London. The business was sold in 2015, following which he retained a 5% shareholding until August 2017.

In the charity sector, he has been Chairman of Prince’s Trust International since December 2015. He was also Chairman of the Prince’s Trust from 2015 to 2018, having joined the charity’s Council in 2007. In addition, he is Deputy Chairman of the Community Security Trust and a Trustee of the Royal Opera House, of the Royal Academy Trust, of BAFTA and of JW3. He was a Governor of St Paul’s School from 2005 to 2016. He served on the Board of the National Theatre for over nine years and one of its theatres, the Cottesloe, was renamed the Dorfman Theatre in 2013.

In 2018, he was awarded a Knighthood in the Queen’s Birthday Honours list for services to philanthropy and the arts, following his appointment as CBE in 2008 for services to business and charity. In 2011, he was awarded The Prince of Wales Medal for Arts Philanthropy.

He is the Honorary Colonel of the Third Battalion of the Princess of Wales Royal Regiment. He is also a Freeman of the City of London and a member of the Mercers’ Company, an Honorary Fellow of St Peter’s College, Oxford, and an Honorary Bencher of Lincoln’s Inn.

He is a member of the Royal Yacht Squadron, and The Garrick Club. He is married with three children, five grandchildren, and lives in London.

Charles Dorfman

CEO

Charles is CEO of Dorfman Media Holdings.

He is also a Producer on several highly successful films such as ‘Untouchable’ and ‘The Lost Daughter'. In 2019, he made his first feature film ‘Barbarians’ as a Director.

Charles is also a Director of Everyman Cinemas and Chairman of the Young Patrons of the National Theatre.

Jake Irwin

Director

Jake is a Director of Dorfman Media Holdings, a Director of Media Finance Capital and the Managing Director of the Dorfman family office. Prior to that he was Co-CEO of Fleming Family and Partners’ Advisory business.

He joined Fleming Family and Partners in January 2003 and was involved in a range of transactions including managing the consortium of investors in Resolution Life plc, the acquisition of Heesen Yachts and advising on a number of private equity investments.

Before joining Fleming Family and Partners, Jake spent three years in investment banking at Robert Fleming before moving to the consumer products investment banking team at Lehman Brothers. Jake graduated with honors from Oxford where he studied Biological Sciences.

Imogen Prowse

Assistant

Having worked in multiple creative fields, Imogen has joined from AMV BBDO as Charles’ assistant. Imogen trained as a Ballroom and Ballet dancer in London and since then has gone on to work in fashion PR and as a freelance baker and patisserie chef.