title: Nick Merry
text: # Nick Merry
  
  Nicholas Merry (born Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England) is a British businessman who made his money in the United States running a now defunct Florida-based dental biotechnology company called MicroDenteX as well as investing in gemstones in Guinea.
  
  Until 2 October 2008, Nick Merry was chairman of Oxford United Football Club, the club he has supported all his life. He played youth football for the club in the 1970s before a knee injury ended his career prematurely. He also played football for England at schoolboy level.
  
  Merry was part of Woodstock Partners Limited (or WPL), a consortium headed up by Ian Lenagan that bought the club for £1 from former chairman Firoz Kassam.
  
  