Alan Stewart has financial experience in retail as CFO at Marks & Spencer and at WH Smith. He started his career in investment banking with HSBC. He became CFO at Thomas Cook Holdings in 1998 and was appointed UK CEO in 2001.
From there, he moved to WH Smith as group CFO, where he worked alongside Kate Swann to improve the company’s performance. In 2008, he was appointed CFO at AWAS, an aircraft leasing business, before moving to M&S in 2010.
He is joining the board of Diageo as non-executive director in September 2014.
Source: Tesco
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