{{Short description|British businessman (born 1967)}} {{Use dmy dates|date= June 2021}} {{Use British English|date= June 2021}} {{Infobox officeholder | name = Oliver Tress | office = CEO of Oliver Bonas | birth_date = {{birth date and age text|May 1967}} | birth_place = Oxfordshire, United Kingdom | education = Marlborough College | alma_mater = Durham University | occupation = Businessman | children = 3 | spouse = Gina Coladangelo (m. 2009; div. sep. 2021) | citizenship = | term_start = 1993 }}
'''Oliver James Mark Tress''' (born May 1967) is a British businessman and the founder and CEO of the UK retail chain Oliver Bonas. He opened the first Oliver Bonas store in London in 1993.<ref name=":0">{{Cite news |last=Fish |first=Isabella |date=17 July 2023 |title=At first it looked like a jumble sale, says Oliver Bonas creator |work=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/business-money/companies/article/at-first-it-looked-like-a-jumble-sale-says-oliver-bonas-creator-8qqg3w70g |access-date=1 December 2023 |issn=0140-0460 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>
==Early life== Tress was born in Oxfordshire, in May 1967,<ref name="Financial Times">{{cite news |last1=Graham |first1=Natalie |title=My First Million — Oliver Tress, retailer |url=https://www.ft.com/content/dad86c06-7979-11e5-a95a-27d368e1ddf7 |access-date=25 June 2021 |work=The Financial Times |date=27 November 2015 |archive-date=25 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625072813/https://www.ft.com/content/dad86c06-7979-11e5-a95a-27d368e1ddf7 |url-status=live }}</ref> the son of a banker father and housewife mother.<ref name="ES 28 June 2021" /> He was educated at Marlborough College, Wiltshire, after which he took a degree in anthropology at Durham University, graduating in 1989 as a member of Hatfield College.<ref name="Financial Times"/><ref>{{cite journal |title=B.A. (Faculty of Social Sciences) |journal=University of Durham Congregation (29 June 9am) |date=1989 |page=6 |publisher=Durham University |location=Durham}}</ref>
==Career== Tress opened the first Oliver Bonas store on London's Fulham Road in 1993 selling handbags and jewellery from Hong Kong, where his parents lived, and products he sourced from trade shows.<ref name=":0" /><ref name="The Independent">{{cite news |last1=Wills |first1=Kate |title=Who is the owner of Oliver Bonas and how has he captured middle-class hearts? |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/oliver-bonas-tress-founder-owner-b1872830.html |access-date=25 June 2021 |work=The Independent |date=25 June 2021 |archive-date=25 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625150745/https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/fashion/features/oliver-bonas-tress-founder-owner-b1872830.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Tress used £3,000 of his savings to set up the first shop, using £1,500 of it for the rent.<ref name="Financial Times" />
In 2011, during the London riots, he was "badly beaten by looters" outside an Oliver Bonas store on Battersea's Northcote Road, and received hospital treatment for head injuries.<ref name="ES 28 June 2021" />
In 2019, Tress obtained a £15m revolving credit facility from HSBC, which allowed Oliver Bonas to open eight more stores.<ref name="Drapers">{{cite web |title=Olly Tress: Founder and CEO, Oliver Bonas |url=https://www.drapersonline.com/people/olly-tress |access-date=26 June 2021 |work=Drapers |archive-date=26 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626105056/https://www.drapersonline.com/people/olly-tress |url-status=live }}</ref> By 2023 there were 83 Oliver Bonas stores in the UK.<ref name=":0" />
==Personal life== Tress has attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, otherwise known as ADHD.<ref name=":0" />
In 2009, he married Gina Coladangelo.<ref name="ES 28 June 2021">{{Cite news |last=Strick |first=Katie |date=28 June 2021 |access-date=29 June 2021 |title=Oliver Tress: Who is Gina Coladangelo's husband? |work=London Evening Standard |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/who-oliver-tress-gina-coladangelo-husband-oliver-bonas-worth-b942918.html |archive-date=29 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210629025844/https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/who-oliver-tress-gina-coladangelo-husband-oliver-bonas-worth-b942918.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Tress and Coladangelo have three children.<ref name="Financial Times" /> In 2015, they moved from Clapham Junction to a five-bedroom Edwardian house in Wandsworth, London with a live-in nanny. The house was later bought by chef, Gordon Ramsay for an estimated £7.5 million.<ref name="Financial Times" /><ref name="Evening Standard">{{cite news |last1=Waddell |first1=Lily |title=Who is Gina Coladangelo? Matt Hancock is accused of having affair with close aide and multi-millionaire's wife |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/who-is-gina-coladangelo-hancock-affair-rumours-close-aide-b942663.html |access-date=26 June 2021 |work=Evening Standard |date=26 June 2021 |archive-date=25 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625215216/https://www.standard.co.uk/news/politics/who-is-gina-coladangelo-hancock-affair-rumours-close-aide-b942663.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Leake |first=Natasha |date=2023-03-20 |title=Matt Hancock's lover Gina Coladangelo and her estranged husband reportedly sell their marital home to Gordon Ramsay for £7.5 million |url=https://www.tatler.com/article/matt-hancocks-lover-gina-coladangelo-sells-her-house-to-gordon-ramsay |access-date=2025-06-07 |website=Tatler |language=en-GB}}</ref> Coladangelo was a director and major stakeholder for the PR and lobbying firm Luther Pendragon, and the marketing and communications director for Oliver Bonas.<ref name="Guardian" /><ref name="Indy100">{{cite news |last1=Plummer |first1=Kate |title=Who's who in Matt Hancock 'affair' as Health Secretary 'caught kissing aide' on CCTV |url=https://www.indy100.com/news/hancock-affair-gina-coladangelo-tress-b1872666 |access-date=26 June 2021 |work=The Independent |date=25 June 2021 |archive-date=26 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626104400/https://www.indy100.com/news/hancock-affair-gina-coladangelo-tress-b1872666 |url-status=live }}</ref> Later she became a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care, an aide to the then Secretary for Health and Social Care Matt Hancock.<ref name="Guardian">{{cite news |last1=Walker |first1=Peter |last2=Booth |first2=Robert |title=No 10 rebuffs calls to sack Matt Hancock for kissing aide |url=https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/25/no-10-rebuffs-calls-to-sack-matt-hancock-for-kissing-aide |access-date=25 June 2021 |work=The Guardian |date=25 June 2021 |archive-date=25 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210625131115/https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2021/jun/25/no-10-rebuffs-calls-to-sack-matt-hancock-for-kissing-aide |url-status=live }}</ref> In June 2021, Hancock resigned after images were released showing him kissing and embracing Coladangelo in his Whitehall office breaking the then COVID-19 social distancing restrictions. It was later reported that they had separated from their spouses to form a relationship.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2021-06-26|title=Matt Hancock resigns as health secretary after kissing aide – follow live|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-affair-resign-sajid-javid-b1873200.html|access-date=2021-06-26|website=The Independent|language=en|archive-date=26 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626214410/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/matt-hancock-affair-resign-sajid-javid-b1873200.html|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Matt Hancock resigns as health secretary after admitting breaking COVID rules|url=https://news.sky.com/story/matt-hancock-resigns-as-health-secretary-12342613|access-date=2021-06-26|website=Sky News|language=en|archive-date=26 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626193852/https://news.sky.com/story/matt-hancock-resigns-as-health-secretary-12342613|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|last=Pogrund|first=Tim Shipman and Gabriel|title=Matt Hancock quits over affair with Gina Coladangelo|newspaper=The Times |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/politics/article/matt-hancock-quits-over-affair-with-gina-coladangelo-nrkrgss2t|access-date=2021-06-26|issn=0140-0460|archive-date=26 June 2021|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210626212029/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hancock-finally-quits-nrkrgss2t|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.tatler.com/article/matt-hancock-declares-his-love-for-gina-coladangelo-on-diary-of-a-ceo-podcast|title=Matt Hancock declares his love for Gina Coladangelo on Diary of a CEO podcast|work=Tatler|date=28 February 2022|last=Cope|first=Rebecca}}</ref>
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==External links== * [https://www.standard.co.uk/insider/who-oliver-tress-gina-coladangelo-husband-oliver-bonas-worth-b942918.html Oliver Tress: Who is Gina Coladangelo's husband?] - report by the ''Evening Standard'', published 29 June 2021
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