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Executive Committee
Alan Stewart
Chief Financial Officer
Alan joined the Board on 23 September 2014.
Alan has extensive financial experience in retail
having been CFO at Marks & Spencer and WH Smith.
A qualified accountant, he started his career in
investment banking with HSBC in 1986. He became
CFO at Thomas Cook Holdings in 1998 and was
appointed UK CEO in 2001. In 2005 he moved to
WH Smith as Group CFO. In 2008 he was appointed
CFO at AWAS, a leading aircraft leasing business,
before moving to M&S in 2010. He is also a
Non-executive Director of Diageo plc.
Jill Easterbrook
Group Business Transformation Director
Jill joined Tesco in 2001 and has held various
leadership roles across the Group. In 2013, Jill joined
the Executive Committee as Director of Developing
Businesses. She subsequently became Chief Customer
Officer until January 2015 when she took up the role
of Group Business Transformation Director.
Dave Lewis
Group Chief Executive
Dave became Group Chief Executive of Tesco on
1 September 2014, joining from Unilever. Over
nearly 28 years, Dave worked in a variety of roles
with Unilever, which took him across greater Europe,
Asia and the Americas. His last three roles were
Chairman for Unilever in the UK and Ireland,
President for the Americas and Global President,
Personal Care. During his career, Dave has been
responsible for a number of business turnarounds.
Dave is a Non-executive Director of British Sky
Broadcasting Group plc.
Benny Higgins
CEO, Tesco Bank and Group Strategy Director
Before joining Tesco Bank, Benny served as Chief
Executive Officer of Retail Business at HBOS PLC.
Between 1997 and 2005 Benny was Chief Executive
of Retail Banking at the Royal Bank of Scotland.
Prior to joining RBS, Benny was at Standard Life for
14 years. He has been Chief Executive of Tesco Bank
since 2008. As well as his role leading the Bank,
Benny Higgins became Group Strategy Director
in January 2015.
Alison Horner
Chief People Officer
Alison joined Tesco in 1999 as a Personnel Manager
and was later promoted to Personnel Director for
Tesco’s UK operations. After eight years in stores and
general merchandise roles she joined the Executive
Committee in 2011 as Group Personnel Director,
with responsibility for the development of our
500,000 colleagues.
Matt Davies
UK & ROI CEO
Matt joined Tesco on 11 May 2015 as UK & ROI CEO
on the Executive Committee. Prior to Tesco, Matt
was CEO at Halfords Group PLC and before that
CEO at Pets at Home. He brings a huge amount of
experience, both in retail and business transformation.
He is also a qualified Chartered Accountant with
extensive corporate finance experience.
Our Executive Committee is organised around
our three core capabilities – customers, channels
and products – alongside leaders for each of the
key functions.
30 Tesco PLC Annual Report and Financial Statements 2015