Sir Terry Leahy

Sir Terry joined the Group as a Non-executive Director in 2011. He became a Senior advisor to the CD&R funds in 2011 and serves as Chairman of BUT International and a Director of Motor Fuel Group. In his 32-year career at Tesco plc, Sir Terry helped to transform the company into the third-largest retailer in the world, serving in a number of senior positions including CEO from 1997 to 2011. During his CEO tenure, Tesco quadrupled both sales and profits, and expanded into new products, store formats, lines of business, and geographies. Sir Terry was chancellor of UMIST, his alma mater, from 2002 until 2004, when he became a co-chancellor of the newly-formed University of Manchester. He was honoured with a doctorate of Science from Cranfield University in June 2007.