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Benson
Gr eople Director
irst appointed: June 2011
Key areas of prior experience: Human Resources
evious relevant experience: Prior to 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 (2001-2011).
2. Warwick Br
ating Officer
First appointed: May 2009
Key areas of prior experience: Low Cost Airline experience in
Europe, India & Asia, Private Equity experience manufacturing,
retailing, ecommerce
Current external appointments: Non-Executive Director, FirstGroup plc
Previous relevant experience: Warwick joined easyJet in 2009 on
the management board as Director of Procurement responsible
for Fleet, Regulation, Central and Airport Procurement before
becoming Group Operations Director in October 2010.
Prior to easyJet Warwick was CEO at Mandala Airlines (2007-
2009), Chief Operating Officer of Air Deccan (2005-2007),
Deputy Director Operations at Ryanair (2002-2005) where he
held various executive roles including Deputy Chief Executive
Officer of Buzz following its acquisition from KLM.
3. Chris Brocklesby
Chief Information Officer
First appointed: March 2015
Key areas of prior experience: IT
Previous relevant experience: Before joining easyJet, Chris
was CIO at Tesco Bank and was a member of the Executive
Committee with responsibility for IT, Change Management,
Supplier Management and Procurement (2007-2015).
Chris also spent 18 years at Accenture in their Financial Services
and Technology practices. He became a partner in 2000 and led
the UK FS Systems Integration practice as well as leading work at
clients such as AXA Life, Zurich Financial Services, Standard Life
and Prudential.
4. Mike Campbell
Group Director, Transformation
First appointed: October 2005
Key areas of prior experience: Human Resources,
Technology, Transformation
Previous relevant experience: Mike has previously held other
senior positions at easyJet including Europe Director and People
Director. Before joining easyJet, Mike worked at Wedgwood in
a broad role as Director of People and Brands and Managing
Director for Canada, Australia and Pan-Asia (2000-2005).
Prior to that, Mike worked for 14 years at Fujitsu in a variety of
development and personnel roles across Europe, Asia, Africa
and the Middle East, ending up as Chief Personnel Officer.
5. Peter Duffy
Group Commercial Director: Customer Product and Marketing
First appointed: February 2011
Key areas of prior experience: Marketing
Previous relevant experience: Before joining easyJet, he was
Marketing Director for Audi in the UK (2007-2011). Prior to that,
Peter was Marketing Services Director at Barclays (2005-2007).
6. Andrew Findlay*
Chief Financial Officer
See Board of Directors’ profiles.
7. Rachel Kentleton
Group Director: Strategy and Implementation
First appointed: February 2014
Key areas of prior experience: Finance, Investor Relations,
Strategy, Programme Management.
Current external appointments:
Non-Executive Director, Persimmon plc and member of the
Audit and Risk Committees.
Previous relevant experience: Rachel is a qualified accountant
and prior to joining easyJet in 2007, she worked in a number
of finance roles at Unilever (1991-1997), NatWest (1997-2000),
Diageo (2000-2006) and SABMiller (2006-2007).
8. Cath Lynn
Group Commercial Director: Markets, Network and Pricing
First appointed: September 2009
Key areas of prior experience: Commercial, Operations, Procurement
Previous relevant experience: Cath joined easyJet in 2002
following the merger of Go and has carried out a number of senior
roles at easyJet including Head of Ground Operations, Head of
Airport Development and Procurement, Head of Network
Development, Network and Planning Director, Customer and
Revenue Director and Group Commercial Director. Prior to easyJet
Cath spent 12 years in retail for J Sainsbury before joining Go
(1998-2002) where she was part of the management buy-out
team and headed up cabin services, ground operations and
customer service.
9. Carolyn McCall
Chief Executive
See Board of Directors’ profiles.
10. Paul Moore
Communications Director
First appointed: November 2010
Key areas of prior experience: Communications
Previous relevant experience: Before joining easyJet, Paul was
Group Public Affairs and Communications Director for FirstGroup
(2006-2010). Prior to that Paul worked for Virgin Atlantic Airways
for ten years as its Director of Corporate Affairs (1997-2006).
11. Kyla Mullins
General Counsel and Director of
Regulation & Corporate Governance
First appointed: February 2015
Key areas of prior experience: Legal, Company Secretarial, Regulation
Previous relevant experience: Kyla is a qualified solicitor, having
spent four years with Clifford Chance (1989-1993) before moving
in-house. Over the past 20 years she has held senior legal
positions in the media, entertainment and strategic outsourcing
sectors. Before joining easyJet Kyla was General Counsel and
Company Secretary at Mitie Group plc (2014-2015), Global
General Counsel of EMI Music (2009-2012), and Group Legal
Director at ITV Plc and Granada Media (2000-2007).
* Prior to Andrew Findlay’s appointment in October 2015, Chris Kennedy
was Chief Financial Officer from July 2010 until September 2015.