Andrew Higginson (businessman)

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

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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 September 2018, Higginson was appointed president of IGD. [9] In October, Higginson was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of online parking portal YourParkingSpace. [10]

Personal life

His wife June (from whom he is separated) is an age-group national triathlete. [11] Together they have three children. [12]

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