Jonathan Goodwin

Jonathan Goodwin may refer to:

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Jonathan Goodwin (escapologist)

Jonathan Goodwin (born 20 February 1980) is a Welsh TV escapologist and daredevil. He first appeared on Channel 4 TV programme Dirty Tricks and has subsequently appeared in TV specials The Seven Stupidest Things to Escape From, and Deathwish Live as well as Discovery Channel's One Way Out and How Not to Become Shark bait in which he allowed himself to be attacked by a Caribbean reef shark. Goodwin returned to Discovery Channel in 2009 for a ten-part series of One Way Out which also starred engineer Terry Stroud. He also appeared in an episode of the Channel 4 program Balls of Steel with his dad helping him with a stunt.

On 11 September 2012, it was announced that Jonathan Goodwin would be appearing in his own series on UKTV's Watch entitled The Incredible Mr. Goodwin. The show included a wide variety of stunts, from free climbing skyscrapers to "extreme planking", and started airing in early 2013. It is also being shown on UKTV's Dave, and on BBC America as Dangerman: The Incredible Mr. Goodwin beginning in July 2013.

Jonathan Goodwin (entrepreneur)

Jonathan (Jonnie) Goodwin, is one of the founding partners of Lepe Partners, an international merchant bank focused on the media, internet and technology sector. Along with Internet entrepreneur and investor Brent Hoberman, he also co-founded Founders Forum.

Goodwin has advised on more than 100 media deals over the last 10 years worth over $20billion.They include Chris Evans' purchase of Virgin Radio, the sale of Friends Reunited to ITV, the sale of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire and more recently the merger of property websites findaproperty.com, primelocation.com and Zoopla.

Career

As a graduate, Goodwin worked briefly at Coopers and Lybrand before joining Apax Partners. In 1997, he was appointed as Managing Director of Talk Radio,which went on to become the foundation for The Wireless Group PLC where Jonathan was Group Managing Director. In 2000 he set up a corporate finance boutique, LongAcre Partners with Julian Culhane, the former Finance Director of at Lastminute.com. LongAcre was sold to Jefferies in 2007 but Goodwin remained as a Senior Advisor to Jefferies International.