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Alita Benson
Group People Director
Alita (1967) joined easyJet in February 2011 as
Head of HR Central Services and in June 2011
was appointed Group People Director.
Before joining easyJet, Alita was Head of
HR Business Partners at T-Mobile for nine
years and led the T-Mobile UK HR input for
the merger with Orange.
Alita is a fellow of CIPD and graduated from
Southampton University with a BA (Hons)
in English Literature. She received a Post
Graduate Diploma in Personnel Development
at Manchester Polytechnic.
Rachel Kentleton
Group Director: Strategy and
Implementation
Rachel (1969) joined easyJet as Head of Investor
Relations in 2007 and in 2011 moved to the role
of Director of Strategy and Investor Relations
before moving into her current role in January
2014. She is responsible for strategy
development, corporate finance activities and the
prioritisation and governance of easyJet’s change
programme. Prior to joining easyJet, Rachel
worked for Unilever, NatWest, Diageo and
SABMiller in a variety of finance roles and gained
significant experience in business partnering,
group reporting and investor relations.
Rachel has a BA in Politics and Psychology
from Liverpool University.
Warwick Brady
Chief Operations Officer
Warwick (1964) is currently Chief Operations
Officer responsible for all of easyJet’s
operations. He joined easyJet in May 2009
as Procurement Director responsible for fleet
management, airport, central procurement and
regulation. In October 2010 he was appointed
Director of Group Operations.
Warwick joined the FirstGroup plc board as
a Non-Executive Director in June 2014.
Before joining easyJet, Warwick was Chief
Executive Officer at Mandala Airlines in Asia.
He also spent two years as Chief Operating
Officer of Air Deccan/Kingfisher which, at the
time, was India’s second-largest airline. Prior to
this, Warwick was Deputy Operations Director
at Ryanair from 2002 to 2005 where he held
various senior executive roles including Deputy
Chief Executive Officer of Buzz, following its
acquisition from KLM.
Prior to this Warwick worked in private equity
for six years as well as a number of years with
Thomson Airways. He also holds an MBA.
Cath Lynn
Group Commercial Director:
Markets, Network and Pricing
Cath (1964) joined easyJet in 2002 following
the merger with Go. Cath has carried out a
number of senior leadership roles at easyJet
including Head of Ground Operations, Head
of Airport Development and Procurement and
Head of Network Development. Cath joined
the Airline Management Board in September
2009 as Network and Planning Director. In
April 2011 she was appointed Customer and
Revenue Director, and Group Commercial
Director in April 2012. She currently holds the
role of Group Commercial Director: Markets,
Network & Pricing.
Cath spent 12 years in retail at J Sainsbury
before joining Go where she was part of
the management buy-out team and headed
up cabin services, ground operations and
customer service. Cath graduated from
the University of Leicester with a BA (Hons)
in Geography.
Mike Campbell
Group Director, Transformation
Mike (1957) is currently Group Director,
Transformation. He joined easyJet in October
2005 as People Director and was Group
Director, Europe from 2011 to 2014.
Before joining easyJet, Mike worked for a
number of luxury goods brands in a variety of
roles including Director of People and Brands
and Managing Director for Canada, Australia
and Pan-Asia. Prior to that, Mike worked for
14 years in the technology sector in low-cost
businesses within the Fujitsu group in a range
of transformation, integration and human
resources roles and board positions across
Europe, Asia, Africa and the Middle East,
ending up as Chief Personnel Officer for
Fujitsu Siemens. His early career was in
education and research.
Mike has a BSc in Mathematics and a Masters
in Fluid Dynamics.
Carolyn McCall OBE
Chief Executive
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