 Coombs pumped £350,000 into the venture.He had a regular column "Chairman's Corner" until 2005. in 2008, George Robinson, a director of London-based hedge fund Sloane Robinson Investment Management, and Peter Hall, of boutique fund manager Hunter Hall, each acquired 26% of the title after Coombs, the magazine's chairman and largest shareholder, sold his 40% stake.In the 1950s, Coombs attempted, but failed, to acquire the film rights for the first four James Bond novels.