Ashley Steel

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Ashley Steel
Born1959 (age 6364)
Alma mater Henley Business School
Occupation(s)Former Vice-chair and global head of transport at KPMG (retired September 2014). Present: non-executive director of GoCo, National Express and the BBC

Ashley Caroline Steel (born 1959) [1] [2] was the vice-chair and global head of transport for KPMG (retired in the summer 2014). Currently she holds non-executive roles on the boards of National Express, GoCo and the BBC. She has been named "one of the UK's most influential gay people". [3]

Steel has a PhD in Management from Henley. [4]

Steel was asked to judge the Independent on Sunday 's Pink List in 2010, but declined to do so. [5]

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