Overview

Gender

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Richard Cousins was appointed a Non-executive Director on 1 November 2014 and became Senior Independent Director on 7 April 2015

Richard has been the Group CEO of the Compass Group PLC since 2006 and is also a member of the advisory board of Lancaster University Business School.

Prior to joining Compass, he worked for 15 years for BPB PLC and was Group Chief Executive from 2000 to 2005. Richard was a Non-executive Director of Reckitt Benckiser Group PLC from 2009 to 2014 and of HBOS PLC and Bank of Scotland from 2007 to 2009.