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| James Spittle - Chairman
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James brings to GS1 UK over 30 years of experience in retailing, manufacturing and supply chain management. He has previously worked with DSGI, Whitbread, Kingfisher, Tesco Stores, Grand Metropolitan and Imperial Tobacco. James is Vice President and Council Board Member for the Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport, on the Board of George Henderson Partners and AIDC, the European Auto ID Centre, and finally an Advisory Board Member at Cranfield University Supply Chain and Logistics. |
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| Chris Tyas - Vice Chairman
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Chris is Group Director responsible
within Nestlé UK and Ireland for Logistics, Information
Systems, Purchasing and Facilities, a £2.5 bn turnover
business. He also participates in an advisory group establishing
logistics and IS strategy for Nestlé worldwide. Chris
has a range of experience dealing with government and government
bodies and is co-chair of ECR UK and a former member of their
European board. |
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| Tom Barry |
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Tom is Managing Director of The TechGuys and group services at DSGI. He was previously with Comet, having joined the Comet Board as Supply Chain Director in September 2000 and been appointed as Deputy Managing Director from February 2003. In addition to responsibilities for After Sales Service, Home Delivery and Transport, Tom's remit at Comet included Stores and Business to Business. Tom was previously Buying Director and Logistics Director with sister company B&Q plc for five years before joining Comet. He is a member of the Institute of Directors, the Marketing Society and the Henley Business School Alumni.
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| Richard Copperthwaite
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Richard is UK IT Director for Head Office functions at Tesco PLC, delivering daily service and strategic developments for areas from Sourcing through merchandising to Finance, as well as managing the development and deployment of global MIS systems.
Richard has worked with many leading retailers in an IT and operations career spanning 20 years, specialising in non-food, logistics and the challenges of fast moving, high growth operations. |
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| Stephen Cross |
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Stephen is a Chartered Engineer
with a degree in Electrical Engineering. He is Managing Director
of ATMS PLC, a well-established company providing systems for
warehouse management, supply chain track and trace, bar code
data collection and associated EDI and e-Commerce. He founded
the company in 1984 following a career with Tube Investments
and Dunlop. He has been on the board of the AIM UK trade association
for several years and is a past chairman. |
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| Chris Edmondson |
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Chris served the Association as
Honorary Treasurer from 1994 until the appointment of the Financial
Director in 2002, at which point he became chairman of the Audit
Committee. Following a number of finance and IT roles during
16 years with J Sainsbury PLC, Chris has been Finance Director
for the Corps of Commissionaires since June 2000. |
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| Peter Jordan |
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Peter has recently set up his own business, Value Chain Vision, to continue the work he started with the Global Commerce Initiative on the value chains of the future. This followed over thirty five years in the industry; in his last role he was responsible for the development of international B2B strategies in e-commerce and supply chain standards as Director for Kraft Foods. He has worked with GS1 UK for over 20 years, including being the Chairman of the Association from 1997-2000, and currently chairs the Technical Advisory Committee. |
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| John Macfarlane |
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John has
extensive experience of working with major retailers in the
UK. He has held senior management positions within Unilever
in both the Customer and Category Development functions and
is currently Business Development Director, Unilever UK Home
& Personal Care.
He has worked closely with Tesco, Asda, Morrisons, Sainsbury,
Wilkinson and the Discount Channel in the Food and Non-Foods
Divisions of Unilever, bringing him a wealth of business experience.
John has overall responsibility for the GDS initiative for
Unilever UK, and development of e-Business processes. Working
closely with GS1 UK, his team is actively involved in the
DSG working groups and the UK Technical Advisory Committee,
driving business benefits through the adoption of global standards |
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| Stewart Oades |
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Stewart is Group Chief Executive
Officer and director at Christian Salvesen PLC, one of Britain's
largest logistics companies which works in partnership with
a number of the UK's largest retailers as well as a wide range
of manufacturers.
Until October 2004, Stewart
was a member of the Exel plc Executive Board and, as Chief
Executive of Contract Logistics for the UK and Ireland, his
responsibility at Exel covered retail, consumer and industrial
logistics in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, and the retail
sector worldwide.
Stewart’s previous roles include Managing Director
of Christian Salvesen’s food logistics operations from
1993 – 1996 and senior positions at Heron Distribution
and Safeway. |
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| Matthew Stephenson |
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Matthew is a partner in Deloitte,
responsible for the firm’s consulting practice in the
South West of England and Wales. His client focus is on the
consumer sector. He has 20 years’ consulting experience,
supporting clients in the alignment of information systems and
business strategy.
Matthew leads Deloitte’s relationship with GS1 UK,
and is responsible for Deloitte’s initiative around
Global Data Synchronisation.
He has a degree in Modern Languages (Spanish and Portuguese)
from the University of Oxford and an MBA from the University
of Bath. Matthew is also a visiting fellow at the University
of Bristol’s school of management. |
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| Lee Tate |
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Lee has been involved in the IT
Industry for over 40 years. He has held board level positions
in publishing, retail, banking, software and hardware technology
and manufacturing, including a number of high tech companies
in the UK and Silicon Valley California. |
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| Stefan Hesse |
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Stefan joined the UK team at Makro in 2005 as the Finance and Administration Director, with responsibility for overall supply chain and logistics management, finance and information management.
He has over 10 years’ experience within the METRO Group, including in the mature and highly competitive markets of the Netherlands, establishing the Cash & Carry organisation in a green field investment at Metro Bulgaria, playing a pivotal role in the phased turnaround and high speed expansion of Metro Stores in the Romanian market and as Corporate Financial Controller of the whole METRO Group in Germany. |
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| Richard Pratt |
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Richard was appointed to the Mitchells & Butlers Board as Commercial Director responsible for Procurement, Supply Chain, Electronic Leisure and Drinks Category Management in 2002, having joined the company, then part of Bass Plc, in 1994 as Retail Director responsible for the Pub Restaurants in the north of England and Scotland.
Previously, Richard held a variety of operational, procurement and marketing roles within the pub retail division.of Diageo (then Grand Met).
Richard is a member of the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply and the Chartered Institute of Marketing. He was a founder member and Director of OFSCI, the industry body set up to increase the efficiency of the foodservice supply chain. |
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| Mr G Clarke
and Mr G Lynch also serve as members
of the Supervisory Board, Mr Coussins
served until 31 March 2007 and Mr A Osborne
served from 1 April 2007. |
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