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SPECSAVERS EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
Doug Perkins Dame Mary Perkins John Perkins Richard Holmes Pauline Best Nigel Parker
Joint Group CEO & Co-founder Co-founder Joint Group CEO Group Brand Director Global People & Organisation Director A qualified and registered optometrist
for more than 50 years, Doug is
accountable for the overall success of
the partnership. Doug also has specific
responsibilities for the advancement
of professional standards across
Specsavers and supporting the
regulatory agenda across our markets.
He and his wife Mary established
Specsavers’ joint venture partnership
model in 1984, with the vision of making
eyecare more affordable. A qualified and registered optometrist
for more than 50 years, Mary plays an
active role in the business in a number
of areas, including driving customer
service standards, championing our
values, and shaping our Corporate
Responsibility (CR) commitments. Mary
plays an active role with a number of
national and local charities and was
made a Dame Commander of the Order
of the British Empire in 2007. She was
appointed ambassador for Vision Aid
Overseas in 2009. John is responsible for the overall
performance of the partnership and the
strategic direction of the group. John
joined Specsavers in 1998 and worked
in UK stores and operations, as well as
a number of international teams, before
joining the Board in 2003. A qualified
chartered accountant with an MBA in
retailing, John spent five years with
Deloitte before joining Specsavers. Richard joined the Board in 2007 as
Marketing Director, and is responsible for
brand development and marketing and
PR activities in all countries, including our
in-house creative agency. Before joining
Specsavers, Richard worked for Boots for
10 years in a number of marketing roles.
Prior to that, he worked for 13 years for
Unilever, and was based in London, Paris
and Milan. Pauline joined Specsavers in 2008 and
is responsible for all elements of people
and organisation strategy and activity
across the group. She is also responsible
for group services, including insurance
and business continuity, office facilities,
travel and aviation. Before joining
Specsavers, Pauline spent 20 years
working in mobile communications,
including 12 years with Vodafone, where
she most recently held the position of
Global Leadership, Talent and People
Capability Director. Managing Director -
ANZ & Northern Europe
Paul Fussey Sean Lawe Paul Bott Paul Marshall Stretch Kontelj Adrian Thompson
Chief Financial & Commercial Officer Group Supply Chain Director Group Commercial Director Managing Director - UK/ROI Group Legal Director Group Chief Information Officer
Paul joined Specsavers in 2009 and
has overall accountability for the group
finance, tax and treasury, legal, business
change and commercial functions of the
business, as well as the group’s supply
chain. Paul assumed the role of Managing
Director in Australia and New Zealand
in December 2014 and returned to the
UK as Chief Financial and Commercial
Officer in 2017. He joined from Boots
UK where he was Finance Director and,
prior to that, held positions of Divisional
Finance Director for Supply Chain and
Shared Services, and Managing Director
for Boots’ manufacturing division, with
operations in the UK, France, Germany,
Poland and the Far East. Sean joined Specsavers in 2002,
initially working in the Product team,
then on the group manufacturing and
distribution strategy. Sean became
Supply Chain Director in 2012 and
is responsible for purchasing and
supplying frames, lens manufacturing
and distribution, contact lens and lens
product development, equipment
procurement, planning and data
management. Before joining Specsavers,
Sean worked for 10 years at Vision
Express as Technical Services Director. Paul joined the Specsavers Executive
Committee in 2017 and is responsible
for all commercial development activity
in support of our long-term strategy.
Having joined Specsavers in 2005,
Paul initially worked as a Commercial
Manager. In 2007 he relocated to
Melbourne, establishing our Hong Kong
office and forming part of the team for
our market entry into Australia and New
Zealand (ANZ). As Commercial Director
for ANZ, Paul was responsible for critical
business functions, including Finance,
IT, Commercial Projects and Optometry.
Prior to joining Specsavers, Paul qualified
as a chartered accountant, working for
companies including Andersen, Deloitte
and Severn Trent. Paul joined Specsavers in 2013 to
assume responsibil ity for leading
the development of our UK and ROI
hearing businesses. In 2014, he assumed
additional responsibility for leading
our Healthcall and Corporate Eyecare
operations. He became Joint Managing
Director for the UK and ROI in 2015,
bringing together optics, hearing and
domiciliary under one leadership
structure for the first time, and took
full responsibility in June 2016. Before
joining Specsavers, Paul was Group
Managing Director at Vets4Pets for
five years and, prior to that, he spent
16 years with leading UK supermarket
chain Sainsbury’s. Stretch joined Specsavers in April 2008
as the first stores in Australia opened,
and was a key member of the ANZ
leadership team during our expansion
across those markets. He became a
member of the Specsavers Executive
Committee in 2015 as Group Legal
Director with responsibility for our legal
function across all markets. Before
joining Specsavers, he was General
Manager for franchise retailer Sportsco
and, prior to that, was partner in a legal
firm for 14 years. Stretch has a long
history of community involvement,
particularly in supporting ethnic
communities, for which he was awarded
an Order of Australia Medal in 2001. Adrian joined Specsavers in 2017 as
Global Chief Information Officer and is
responsible for the overall leadership
of the technology, digital and data
functions, including the direction and
execution of our global programmes
and information governance. Before
joining Specsavers, Adrian was Global
Chief Information Officer for Dyson, and
prior to that, held senior IT and business
change positions at Gala Coral Group,
New Look, Oasis and Harrods.
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Nigel joined the Board in 2006 and
provides overall leadership to Australia
and New Zealand and the Northern
Europe region with a focus on driving
continued growth, as well as sharing
best practice and innovation across all
our markets. Nigel joined Specsavers
in 1997 from Essilor, the world’s largest
manufacturer of ophthalmic lenses,
becoming Product Director and then
Commercial Director.
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