Maxwell William Humphrey Aitken

"From 1972 to 1978 Lord Beaverbrook worked for Beaverbrook Newspapers starting as a management trainee and ultimately rising to General Manager of the Sunday Express. Since 1978 he has served as a director of the Aitken/Beaverbrook Family Office, overseeing a diversified investment fund, specialising in real estate for many years, and more recently in oil and gas, and insurance. At that time he founded VenTech Investments Inc. (Canada) as a start-up venture business and served as Executive Chairman. In 1995 Lord Beaverbrook founded MARK Telecom, one of the first of the new ‘switchless re-sellers’ in the UK. This interest in the Telecom industry led to the formation of Highway One AG, a broadband, multimedia, data transport company of which he was Chairman until 1999 when it was sold to the Spanish company Telefonica in 2001. From 2000 to 2007 he was Chairman of Net Integration Technologies Inc of Toronto, now part of IBM. He continues to run various enterprises controlled by the Beaverbrook/Aitken Family Office.

"After becoming a member of the House of Lords in 1985, Beaverbrook was appointed a Lord in Waiting and Government Whip in 1986.

"He served as Deputy Treasurer of the Conservative Party during the Thatcher years from 1988 to 1990 and was appointed Treasurer in 1990. Royal Auxiliary Air Force

"Lord Beaverbrook was a director of the British Racing Drivers Club from 2006 to 2008. He is currently a director of the British Powerboat Racing Club, and through his involvement, the annual Cowes-Torquay-Cowes race that his father created has been revitalised in recent years. He remains active in various charities and is currently a Vice President of Ambition UK (formerly National Association of Boys’ Clubs) having been Chairman from 1988 to 1992. He is a patron of London's Air Ambulance and was a Member of the Council of the Homeopathic Trust from 1987 to 1992. He was appointed Chairman of the Beaverbrook Foundation in 1985 on the death of his father, having been a Trustee since 1974."