neil braithwaite

chairman

About

Board level leader with a strong finance background, highly experienced in the development of strategy, M&A activity and the delivery of change. An outstanding track record of success in blue chip retail/service led organisations. A calm, clear thinker and decision maker with a firm focus on growing value; takes a collegiate, yet challenging, approach and creates the conditions for teams to thrive. Now looking to build a balanced portfolio of Non-Executive Director roles in the public, private and not-for-profit sectors.

Country

united kingdom

City

york

Industry

retail

Skill

management, leadership, change management, business strategy, stakeholder management, retail, strategy, mergers and acquisitions, performance management, team leadership, business planning, coaching, budgets, governance, team management, finance, executive management, employee engagement, organizational development, leadership development, management development, management consulting, business process improvement, strategic planning, culture change, business transformation, executive coaching, stakeholder engagement, time management, policy

Experience

chairman

the guinness partnership

2013-11 - Present · 12 yrs 11 mos

trustee

barnardo's

2011-1 - Present · 15 yrs 9 mos

Barnardo's is the leading UK's children's charity, working intensively at any one time with more than 40,000 children and their families and touching the lives of many thousands more in around 430 services throughout the UK.

chairman

brathay trust

2011-1 - Present · 15 yrs 9 mos

Brathay is a charity that works with many of the most vulnerable and disadvantaged children and young people to help them develop the skills, confidence and motivation to make positive choices in their lives.

governor

primrose high school leeds

2011-1 - Present · 15 yrs 9 mos

Governor of high school in the process of becoming The Co-operative Academy of Leeds

governor

the co-operative academy at brownhills

2009-1 - Present · 17 yrs 9 mos

Governor and Finance Committee Chairman for this Co-operative Group sponsored Academy in Stoke-on-Trent with a £4.5m annual budget & with a £22m new build programme underway

managing director - specialist retail businesses

the co-operative group

2007-8 - 2011-6 · 3 yrs 11 mos

Reporting to the Group Chief Executive, responsible for a portfolio of businesses which comprise the largest independent travel agency in the UK (£900m turnover & 3000 staff), a major consumer legal services practice (£25m turnover & 300 staff) and the market leader in pre-need funeral planning products (£30m turnover, 60 staff and over £500m of assets under management)

pension scheme trustee

pace trustees

2008-1 - 2011-1 · 3 yrs 1 mo

Employer trustee/director of the Co-operative Group's largest pension scheme with over £5billion of assets and 90,000 members

managing director - co-operative pharmacy

the co-operative group

2005-4 - 2007-8 · 2 yrs 5 mos

Led the third largest community pharmacy business in the UK (over £350m turnover, 3000 staff and 430 locations).

director

british retail consortium

2005-1 - 2007-1 · 2 yrs 1 mo

finance director - food retail

the co-operative group

1997-2 - 2005-4 · 8 yrs 3 mos

A key member of the senior management team of the Group’s largest trading division that grew the business from £1bn turnover and 450 stores to over £3bn turnover and c1700 stores in eight years.