Victoria Robey
{{Short description|American-British arts administrator and former banker}}
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| birth_name = Victoria Susan Hull
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| birth_place = Greenwich, Connecticut, US
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| education = Phillips Academy
Wesleyan University
| occupation = Arts administrator
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Victoria Susan Robey, Lady Robey, {{post-nominals|country=GBR|size=100%|CBE}} (née Hull; born 1960) is an American-British arts administrator and former banker.
Early life
She is the daughter of Lloyd Nelson Hull (1922-2018), lawyer and civic leader, and Mary Gutfreund (sister of John Gutfreund), who married in 1957. She grew up in Greenwich, Connecticut, US. She was educated at Phillips Academy and Wesleyan University in Connecticut.
Career
She started her career in mergers and acquisitions and corporate finance at Goldman Sachs in New York and London, and subsequently joined executive search company Russell Reynolds Associates.
Robey is chairman of the board of directors of the London Philharmonic Orchestra.{{cite web |title=Board and Advisory Council |url=https://www.lpo.org.uk/about/board.html |website=London Philharmonic Orchestra}}
She is a co-founder of Music Masters, a UK-based music education charity which works with schools, teachers and arts organisations with the aim of making music accessible to all.
Honours
She was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2014 Birthday Honours and Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2024 New Year Honours,{{London Gazette|issue=64269|supp=y|page=N11|date=30 December 2023}} both for services to music.
Personal life
In 1987, she married Richard Sharp, a fellow Goldman Sachs banker, in Connecticut.{{cite news |last1=Frazer |first1=Jenni |title=Leading candidate to be next BBC chair is Jewish banking expert Richard Sharp |url=https://jewishnews.timesofisrael.com/leading-candidate-to-be-next-bbc-chair-is-jewish-banking-expert-richard-sharp/ |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=Jewish News |date=October 27, 2020}}{{cite news |title=Victoria Hull Wed To Richard Sharp |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/30/style/victoria-hull-wed-to-richard-sharp.html |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=The New York Times |date=August 30, 1987}} In October 2008, they were living in Kensington, and had an estimated net worth of £500 million.{{cite news |title=The 1000 |url=https://www.standard.co.uk/news/society-7292522.html |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=Evening Standard |date=2 October 2008}} They had three children together.{{cite news |last1=Bell |first1=Alex |title=Getting to the Sharp end of a mysterious central bank |url=https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/business/getting-sharp-end-mysterious-central-8499624 |access-date=7 January 2021 |work=Manchester Evening News |date=23 January 2015}}
Some time after 2014, she married British investment banker Sir Simon Robey.{{cite news |last1=Semmes |first1=Anne W. |title=Robey Brings Honor to Father Via the London Philharmonic |url=https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2019/03/22/robey-brings-honor-to-father-via-the-london-philharmonic/ |access-date=6 January 2021 |work=Greenwich Sentinel |date=March 22, 2019}}