Gina Coladangelo

Coladangelo was born in Hitchin Maternity Hospital, Hertfordshire.[1][2] Her father, Rino C. Coladangelo, is a businessman. Her mother is Heather Burtt.[3] Her father came to the UK when he was aged 5, to Bedfordshire.[4]

Gina Coladangelo studied Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE) at Oxford University from 1995 to 1998, and obtained a Master's degree from Oriel College.[5][6] She worked as a newsreader at the student radio station, Oxygen 107.9 FM, where Matt Hancock was a sports reporter.[7][5][8]

Her brother, Roberto Coladangelo, is a director of Partnering Health Limited (PHL), which won a £28m NHS contract, and although there is "no suggestion of any wrongdoing" on the part of PHL, "Hancock was found to have breached the Ministerial Code by failing to declare a stake in a family company that won an NHS contract."[9]

Coladangelo worked as a senior account manager in the campaigns division at Munro and Forster Communications before moving to the public relations and lobbying firm Luther Pendragon in 2002.[10][11] She was promoted to partner in April 2005.[11] With three other partners (Simon Whale, Amy Kroviak and Daniel Guthrie), she led a management buyout of the firm in December 2005 with the help of a £2,000,000 investment from Octopus Asset Management, a private equity firm.[11] She therefore become a director and shareholder.[10][11] She ceased to be employed by Luther Pendragon in 2014 and resigned as a director in 2017, though as of 2021 remains a shareholder.[10] As of late June 2021, she had been the marketing and communications director since 2014 at the Oliver Bonas retail chain, which was founded by her husband Oliver Tress.[12]

In June 2019 she received a parliamentary pass as a member of Hancock's staff.[13] In March 2020 she was given a part-time role as a non-executive director at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).[14] She was paid £15,000, equivalent to £1,000 a day, for her directorship on a six-month contract, although there was no public record of the appointment. As an aide to Hancock, she accompanied him to confidential meetings with civil servants.[15][16][17][18] In June 2021, it was reported that she resigned after her affair with Hancock was exposed.[19]

Coladangelo is the great-niece of former Arsenal goalkeeper Bob Wilson,[20] and married Glynn Gibb, a London property lawyer, in 2004.[21]

In 2009,[22] she married Oliver Tress, the owner of Oliver Bonas, with whom she has three children.[23] In 2015, they moved from Clapham Junction in London to a five-bedroom house in Wandsworth in London, with a live-in nanny.[23][5]

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