- Nigel Rudd
Sir Nigel founded Williams PLC in 1982, a company that went on to become one of the largest industrial holding companies in the United Kingdom until its demerger in November 2000, creating Chubb plc and Kidde plc.
- Stuart Rose
STUART Rose , chief executive at Marks & Spencer, has nearly doubled his year-end bonus to £2.6 million after returning the once struggling retailer to health.
- Jeroen van der Veer
</gallery>;Jeroen van der Veer (born October 27, 1947 in Utrecht, Netherlands) is the CEO of oil company Royal Dutch Shell. Van der Veer joined Shell in 1971 where he worked in manufacturing and marketing in the Netherlands, Curaçao and the United Kingdom. Van der Veer graduated in 1971 from Delft University with a MSc in mechanical engineering and went on to earn a MSc in economics from Erasmus University Rotterdam.
- Arun Sarin
Arun Sarin spent almost his entire working life in the telecommunications industry. He built an enviable professional record by combining various talents and skills: his technical knowledge, his business strategy, and his financial acumen were all legendary. He held several senior-executive-level positions in major U.S. companies in the telecommunications industry. At times, his ascension into top-management positions appeared almost meteoric.
- Mervyn King
Mervyn Allister King (born March 30 1948) is Governor of the Bank of England. He took over on June 30 2003 from Sir Edward George. King studied at Wolverhampton Grammar School, King's College, Cambridge, St John's College, Cambridge (where he gained an MA), and Harvard; he then taught at the University of Cambridge and the University of Birmingham. He has also been Visiting Professor to Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
- Martha Lane Fox
Martha Lane Fox (born February 10 1973), great-granddaughter maternally of Charles Henry Alexander Paget, 6th Marquess of Anglesey, is a British e-commerce business woman, charity trustee and board member of Channel 4. She is the daughter of the British historian and gardening correspondent Robin Lane Fox. She was educated at Oxford High School, Westminster School and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she read ancient and modern history.
- Tom McKillop
Sir Thomas Fulton Wilson McKillop, born March 19, 1943, is a chemist and pharmaceutical company CEO. McKillop was born in Dreghorn, a small village near the town or Irvine in Ayrshire and educated at Irvine Royal Academy and then Glasgow University, where he took a BSc Hons and PhD in Chemistry. He joined ICI's Corporate Research Laboratory at Runcorn in 1969 after post-doctoral research work in Paris. He moved to ICI Pharmaceuticals Division in 1975 and, …
- Sir Peter Davis
Sir Peter Davis (born December 23, 1941) was, until June 2004, the chairman of J Sainsbury, which operates the UK supermarket chain Sainsbury's. He worked for J Sainsbury from 1976 to 1986 and was responsible for all buying and marketing operations. He was chief executive of Prudential plc from 1995 having joined the company as a non-executive director. During this period, the company was condemned by the Treasury for mis-selling more pensions than any other firm.
- Karren Brady
Karren Brady (born April 1969) is a British broadcasting and sport business manager. She is best known for being the managing director of Birmingham City Football Club. She was the first woman to hold such a high-level post in the top flight of English football having been appointed in 1992, when only 23 years old. She was responsible for its flotation in 1997 becoming the youngest Managing Director of a UK plc in the process.
- John Banham
Sir John Banham is a British business leader. He is currently chairman of Whitbread, a major brewer. He was educated at Charterhouse School, a famous boys' independent school in Godalming, England, and at the University of Oxford. He was the first Controller of the Audit Commission form 1983 to 1987, then was Director General of the Confederation of British Industry from 1987 to 1992.
- Penny Hughes
Penny Hughes (born 1959) is a British businesswoman. Hughes attained a degree in chemistry from Sheffield University. She spent 10 years with Coca-Cola, and became the company's President for the UK & Ireland division at the age of 33. She has also been a director of the Bodyshop, GAP, TrinityMirror and Next PLC. Penny currently serves as a non-executive director of Vodafone PLC and Reuters and is a trustee of the British Museum.
- Ann Gloag
Ann Souter Gloag McCleary, OBE is a Scottish business woman, and charity campaigner. Born Ann Heron Souter on December 10 1942 in Perth, Scotland, she was educated at Caledonian Road Primary School and Perth High School. She qualified as a nurse and during a 20 year career worked as a burns unit sister. She founded bus company "Gloagtrotter" in October 1980 with her brother, Brian Souter and her then-husband, Robin Gloag.
- Peter Brown
Peter Brown (born December 16, 1941) played and for West of Scotland R.F.C. and Gala R.F.C., and captained Scotland 10 times in his 27 internationals (1964-73). Peter is an independent member of Scottish Rugby's appeals panel and acts as a match and discipline commissioner for both the RBS Six Nations and the Heineken European Cup. He is the elder brother of the late Gordon Brown. He was dubbed "the man on the coathanger" in his playing days because of his unusual gait.
- Eric Nicoli
Eric Nicoli is Executive Chairman of EMI Group, one of the world’s leading music companies. Eric began his career in 1972 at Rowntree Mackintosh as a Market Research Assistant. He spent 19 years at United Biscuits, during which he held a number of posts including Group Business Planning Director, Chief Executive, European Operations before becoming Group Chief Executive.
- Hermann Hauser
Dr Hermann Hauser is the co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners Limited. Companies he founded or co-founded include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Electronic Share Information Limited, E*Trade UK, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited. He was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis and SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited. At Amadeus, he continues to oversee a broad range of early and later stage developing technology companies.
- Ian MacFarlane
Ian Macfarlane AC (born 22 June, 1946), Australian economist, and Governor of the Reserve Bank of Australia (RBA), Australia's central bank, from 1996 to September 17, 2006. He is also former Chairman of the Payments System Board of the Reserve Bank and Chairman of the Council of Financial Regulators. Macfarlane was educated at Monash University, Melbourne and tutored in economics there before joining the RBA in 1970.
- Esther Dyson
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- Roberto Quarta
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- Hans Snook
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- Jane Hutt
Jane Hutt (born 1949) is a Welsh Labour politician and a Minister in the Welsh Assembly Government, and a member of the National Assembly for Wales for the Vale of Glamorgan.
- Jan du Plessis
Jan du Plessis (born 1954) is the non-executive Chairman of British American Tobacco's board of directors, and a non-executive director of the Lloyds TSB Group. Du Plessis was placed tenth in <i>The Times</i>' 2006 Power 100, a list which rates the most powerful people in British business.
- Anthony Ruys
Anthony Ruys is a former Chairman of the Executive Board of Heineken N.V. Ruys studied commercial law at the University of Utrecht. He started his career for Unilever where he worked as marketing director and chairman for various subsidiaries of Unilever in the Netherlands, Colombia and Italy. In September 1993, Mr. Ruys continued his career at the Heineken Group, where he became Executive Board Member, responsible a.o. for marketing.
- Chips Keswick
Sir John Chippendale "Chips" Lindley Keswick (born 2 February 1940) is a British businessman. He is a member of the Jardine dynasty founded by William Jardine (surgeon). He attended Eton College and the University of Aix-Marseilles. He married Lady Sarah Ramsay, daughter of the 16th Earl of Dalhousie, in 1966. They have three sons David, Tobias and Adam. His elder brother Henry and younger brother Simon Keswick are Chairman and Director of Jardine Matheson Holdings Ltd.
- John Boyd
Sir John Dixon Ikle Boyd KCMG (born January 17th 1936) was the master of Churchill College, Cambridge from 1996 to 2006. He has also been the British ambassador to Japan, between 1992 and 1996. Sir John has several high-profile positions, including chairman of the British Museum and served as a non-executive director for British Nuclear Fuels plc (BNFL) between 1997 and 2000.
- Tsang Yok-Sing
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- Philip J. Carroll
Philip J. Carroll, Jr. (born 1938) is active in a variety of corporate and government roles. Carroll earned a Bachelor of science in Physics from Loyola University New Orleans in 1958 and a M.S. in physics from Tulane University in 1961, after which he joined the Shell Oil company as an engineer. Carroll became the CEO of Shell Oil in 1993 and served in that position until July 1998, when he became the Chairman and CEO of Fluor Corporation, …
- Lee Lam Thye
Tan Sri Lee Lam Thye was a Malaysian politician and a social activist who once was a former leader of the Democratic Action Party (DAP). Lee completed his secondary education at St Michael's Institution in Ipoh, Perak where he obtained his Senior Cambridge Certificate in 1965. He was the elected State Legislative Assemblyman for Bukit Nenas, Selangor from 1969 to 1974 and served as Member of Parliament for Kuala Lumpur Bandar / Bukit Bintang from 1974 to 1990, …
- Jack Rowell
Jack Rowell (born 1937) is the Director of Rugby at Bath. Between 1978 and 1994 Rowell coached Bath during their "golden era", winning eight John Player/Pilkington Cups and five League Championships. Between 1995 and 1997, Rowell was the coach of the England Rugby Team. He took over from Geoff Cooke, announcing that England would give up the forward-dominated, risk-free strategies that had won so many Six Nations titles in the past, …
- Colin Blakemore
He studied Medical Sciences at Cambridge and completed a PhD at the University of California in Berkeley. After 11 years in the Department of Physiology at Cambridge, he became Waynflete Professor of Physiology at Oxford in 1979 and was Director of the MRC IRC for Cognitive Neuroscience for 8 years. His research is concerned with vision and the early development of the brain.
- Ulrich Cartellieri
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- Mark Shuttleworth
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- Colin Dyer
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- Joaquim Chissano
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- Brian Fender
Sir Brian Fender (Birth unknown - ?) is a British academic administrator. He was Chief Executive of the Higher Education Funding Council for England from 1995-2001. Prior to that he was Vice-Chancellor of Keele University, Associate Director and Director of the Institut Laue-Langevin in Grenoble, France and Chairman of the Science Board of the UK's Science and Engineering Research Council. He is a graduate and Fellow of Imperial College.
- Giles Henderson
Giles Ian Henderson CBE, born 20 April 1942 in South Africa, is the present Master of Pembroke College, Oxford. Gaining his Bachelor of Arts degree at Michaelhouse, University of the Witwatersrand, Henderson became Senior Mackinnon Scholar at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he gained his MA and BCL). He received the Fulbright Award from University of California, Berkeley in 1966-67. Henderson joined Slaughter and May in 1968 and was admitted Solicitor in 1970.
- Nina Bracewell-Smith
Lady Nina Bracewell-Smith, (born 1955), is a non-executive director of Arsenal Football Club. Born Nina Kakkar in New Delhi, she is the daughter of an Indian Diplomat. In 1996 she married Sir Charles Bracewell-Smith, the fourth baronet (of Keighley in the County of Yorkshire); he is the son of the former Arsenal director Sir George Bracewell-Smith, (second Baronet) who was on the Arsenal board of directors from May 1953 to September 1976.
- Richard Ballerand
Richard Melville Ballerand is a tri-lingual, tri-national defence and security policy adviser, a Senior Partner at Dorrington Associates, the Security Policy Advisory Group; also very involved in "pro bono" activities and is a trustee or non-executive director of numerous organisations, including the Royal Institution, the Chelsea Society, the Royal United Services Institute for Defence and Security Studies, aka RUSI, …
- Philip Hampton
Appointed Chairman on 19 July 2004. He was Group Finance Director of Lloyds TSB Group plc from 2002 to 2004, Group Finance Director of BT Group plc from 2000 to 2002, Group Finance Director of BG Group plc from 1997 to 2000, Group Finance Director of British Gas plc from 1995 to 1997, Group Finance Director of British Steel plc from 1990 to 1995, an Executive Director of Lazards from 1981 to 1990 and a Non-Executive Director of RMC Group plc from 2002 to 2005.
- John Eales
John Eales AM is a former Australian rugby union footballer and arguably the most successful captain in the history of Australian Rugby. His 52-cap reign as captain marked an era of Australian success in world rugby. Eales played a major part in Australia’s victories at the Rugby World Cup twice in his illustrious career, first in 1991, and later skippering his country to victory in 1999 Eales played for Queensland Reds and Australia.
- Nigel Howe
Nigel Howe is the chief executive of Reading Football Club, of the FA Premier League in England. The majority of Howe's career was in property management before joining John Madejski in 1995 when he took over as chief executive of Reading F.C. Howe has led the redevelopment of both the club's stadium and its business management, and now Reading F.C. is widely regarded as one of the best managed clubs in the Football League.