Phoenix Venture Holdings Phoenix Venture Holdings Phoenix Venture Holdings (PVH), also known as the Phoenix Consortium, was a British company formed by four businessmen (John Towers, Peter Beale, Nick Stephenson and John Edwards). Following BMW's break-up of the Rover Group a financially complex deal involving a £500 million "dowry payment" from BMW, resulted in PVH purchasing the Rover marque in May 2000 for the notional sum of £10, relaunching the car company as MG Rover. MG Rover and related companies placed themselves in administration on 8 April 2005. Four years later and after spending £16m the Government finally released the report investigating the
John Robin Stephenson in 1988 in an effort to improve the club's image and he introduced guided tours at Lord's in 1989, which were popular. He retired in 1993 and was succeeded by Roger Knight. In 1994, he was promoted civil CBE for "services to cricket". Stephenson married Karen Margrethe Koppang in 1962. The couple had a son and two daughters. He died at Salisbury, Wiltshire from a stroke in 2003, aged 72. John Robin Stephenson Lieutenant Colonel John Robin Stephenson (25 February 1931 – 2 June 2003) was a British Army officer and cricket administrator. John Stephenson was born in Sussex and