Harry Hyman
Harry Hyman (born 1956 in Harrow, United Kingdom) is a British property entrepreneur.
He achieved a degree in Geography from Christ's College, Cambridge graduating with a double first in 1978. He trained as an accountant with Price Waterhouse (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and qualified in 1982.
In 1994 he founded Primary Health Properties PLC, a company based on the idea of purchasing primary health care premises and leasing them back to NHS General Practitioners through property investment. The company listed in March 1996 on AIM and progressed to the main market in 1998. In 2007 PHP was one of the first 7 entities to enter the new UK REIT regime.
In April 2018 PHP was promoted to the FTSE 250.
In 2019 the company merged with Medicx to create the largest private owner of primary accommodation in the UK and Ireland. As at 31 June 2020 PHP had property assets of over £2.5 billion in the UK and €214 million in Ireland across 510 asset, including 17 in Ireland.
In 2012 he founded The International Opera Awards and the Opera Awards Foundation which has three primary aims, to raise the profile of opera as an art form; to recognise and reward success from those involved in opera; and, through the Opera Awards Foundation, to generate funds to provide bursaries for aspiring talent in opera from around the world.
PHP is managed externally by Nexus Tradeco which is part of the Nexus Group which includes a publishing business, an early stage investment business Nexus Investments Ventures Ltd and Nexus Corporate Finance.
Investor Publishing publishes HealthInvestor, EducationInvestor, NutritionInvestor, Caring Times, Nursery Management Today and the Journal of Dementia Care