Andrew Higginson (businessman)

Andrew Thomas Higginson (born 10 July 1957) is a British business executive. As of 2017, he was the Chairman of Wm Morrison Plc,[1] Non-Executive Director of Woolworths in South Africa,[2] Chairman of N Brown Group[3] and Chairman of ITC Luxury Travel Group.[4]

Early life

Higginson was educated at Bury Grammar School. He studied town planning at Birmingham Polytechnic.[5]

Career

Higginson started his career at Unilever and Guinness Brewing[6] before moving into retail in 1990. He was Group Finance Director of Laura Ashley Holdings[6] and The Burton Group[6] before joining Tesco in 1997. At Tesco he was an executive director for 15 years, including finance and strategy director and Chief Executive of retailing services.[6]

In 2012 he was appointed Non-Executive Chairman at Poundland[3] and in the same year became Non-Executive Chairman at McCurrach.[1] He was SID at BskyB until 2014.[1] Higginson is currently Non-Executive Chairman at N Brown[3] and was appointed Chairman of Wm Morrison in 2015, replacing Sir Ian Gibson.[3][6]

Private equity firm Warburg Pincus[7] appointed Higginson as a senior advisor to the firm in 2015. In 2016 Higginson was appointed as a senior advisor to Shore Capital Markets.[2]

He was an Independent Non-Executive director of the Rugby Football Union from 2011 to 2016.[8]

In October 2018 Higginson was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of online parking portal YourParkingSpace.[9]

Personal life

His wife June (from whom he is separated) is an age-group national triathlete.[10] Together they have three children.[11]

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Andrew Higginson swaps Poundland for Wm Morrison".
  2. 1 2 "Andrew Higginson joins Shore Capital Markets as adviser".
  3. 1 2 3 4 "Poundland appoints former Tesco boss as chairman".
  4. ↑ "NorthEdge Capital backs luxury travel firm MBO".
  5. ↑ "'There is a sort of masochistic thing about being in business. I'm loving it'".
  6. 1 2 3 4 5 "Morrison's boss to give talk at event".
  7. ↑ "Morrisons chairman Andrew Higginson adds Warburg Pincus to CV".
  8. ↑ "It will take me five years to put Morrisons back to rights".
  9. ↑ https://www.businessleader.co.uk/morrisons-chairman-joins-yourparkingspace-co-uk-board/53161/
  10. ↑ "Higginson aims to lead Poundland growth".
  11. ↑ "Springsteen fan Andy Higginson born to run a bit of Tesco".
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