Paris Moayedi

Paris Moayedi (1938–2023) was the entrepreneur who expanded Jarvis plc from a small construction business into one of the UK's largest engineering contractors.

Career Born in Iran, brought up in the Mount Damavand area, and educated at Alborz High School in Tehran, Moayedi came to the UK in the 1958 and studied at Bradford University before becoming a site engineer at a business which was subsequently acquired by Amec. In 1983 he joined Walter Lawrence, a housebuilder, where he was appointed to establish a new division. He resigned in 2003 after Jarvis faced an investigation into its maintenance of the railway track following the seven fatalities in the rail crash at Potters Bar.

He lived in a 15th-century thatched house in Essex that used to belong to the singer Roger Whittaker.