Ian Cheshire
CEO and Chairman
Kingfisher, British Retail Consortium
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Ian Cheshire was appointed Group Chief Executive of Kingfisher plc in January 2008. Prior to this he was Chief Executive of B&Q from June 2005. His previous roles at Kingfisher include Chief Executive of International and Development, Chief Executive of e-Kingfisher and Group Director of Strategy and Development. Before joining Kingfisher in 1998 he worked for a number of retail businesses including Sears plc where he was Group Commercial Director.
Ian is Chairman of the British Retail Consortium. He is a Non-Executive Director of Whitbread plc and lead non-executive member on the Department for Work and Pensions Board. He is also a member of the Prince of Wales Corporate Leaders Group on Climate Change and a Member of the Business Disability Forum President’s Group (formerly Employers’ Forum on Disability).
In addition, Ian chairs the Ecosystem Markets Task Force, an independent business-led initiative aimed at helping UK business to find new opportunities to drive green economic growth and profit from valuing and protecting nature. |
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Tim Steiner
CEO, Ocado
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Tim Steiner is the Chief Executive Officer and is a founding Director.
As well as having general oversight of the Business, the IT, logistics
and engineering, warehousing, operations, business planning and retail
divisions of Ocado report directly to him. Prior to Ocado, Tim spent
eight years as a banker at Goldman Sachs.
During his time there, he was based in London, Hong Kong and
New York in the Fixed Income division. Tim graduated from Manchester
University with an honours degree in economics, finance and accountancy
in 1992.
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