Andrew Higginson | |
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Born | Andrew Thomas Higginson 10 July 1957 |
Occupation | Business executive |
Andrew Thomas Higginson (born 10 July 1957 [1] ) is a British business executive. As of 2017, he was the Chairman of Morrisons, [2] Non-Executive Director of Woolworths in South Africa, [3] Chairman of N Brown Group [4] and Chairman of ITC Luxury Travel Group, and Chairman of corporate finance firm Clearwater International. [5]
Higginson was educated at Bury Grammar School. He studied town planning at Birmingham Polytechnic. [6]
Higginson started his career at Unilever and Guinness Brewing [7] before moving into retail in 1990. He was Group Finance Director of Laura Ashley Holdings [7] and The Burton Group [7] 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. [7]
In 2012 he was appointed Non-Executive Chairman at Poundland [4] and in the same year became Non-Executive Chairman at McCurrach. [2] He was SID at BskyB until 2014. [2] Higginson is currently Non-Executive Chairman at N Brown [4] and was appointed Chairman of Wm Morrison in 2015, replacing Sir Ian Gibson. [4] [7]
Private equity firm Warburg Pincus [8] appointed Higginson as a senior advisor to the firm in 2015. In 2016 Higginson was appointed as a senior advisor to Shore Capital Markets. [3]
He was an Independent Non-Executive director of the Rugby Football Union from 2011 to 2016. [9]
In September 2018, Higginson was appointed president of IGD. [10] In October, Higginson was appointed as Non-Executive Chairman of online parking portal YourParkingSpace. [11]
In July 2022, Higginson was appointed as the new chairman of JD Sports. [12]
His wife June (from whom he is separated) is an age-group national triathlete. [13] Together they have three children. [14] He lives in Alderley Edge, Cheshire, with his second wife and two stepsons. [1]
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