Dave Lewis (businessman)
| Dave Lewis | |
|---|---|
| Born |
David John Lewis March 1965 (age 52) Yorkshire, England |
| Residence | Richmond, London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Trent Polytechnic (now Nottingham Trent University) Harvard Business School |
| Occupation | Businessman |
| Years active | 1987–present |
| Salary | £4.133 million (total compensation) |
| Title | CEO, Tesco |
| Term | September 2014-present |
| Predecessor | Philip Clarke |
| Successor | Incumbent |
| Spouse(s) | divorced |
| Children | 2 |
David John Lewis (born March 1965) is a British businessman. Since September 2014, he has been the CEO of Tesco. Prior to joining Tesco, he was president of global personal care at Unilever.
Lewis was born in March 1965, in Yorkshire.
Lewis attended Hills Road Sixth Form College in Cambridge from 1979 to 1981.
After Thorne Grammar School, he went to university, graduating from Trent Polytechnic, now Nottingham Trent University, with a BA in Business Studies in 1987. He also attended Harvard University in 2002, where he completed the Advanced Management Programme offered by Harvard Business School. In 2012, Nottingham Trent University awarded Lewis with an honorary doctorate.
Lewis worked at Unilever for over 27 years in various posts. In August 2014, he left the company to become CEO of the British multinational retailer Tesco.
In 1987, after graduating from Nottingham Trent University, Lewis obtained a post as graduate trainee at the Anglo-Dutch multinational Unilever, in the UK. He worked at Unilever for 27 years from 1987 until September 2014. Between 1990 and 1992, he worked at National Accounts for the company.
One of the biggest successes of his career at Unilever was in 1992 when he launched Dove (toiletries), a personal care brand, in the UK. The launch of Dove in the UK was seen as a success considering the fact that Dove is now one of Unilever's largest brands contributing $5,885 million to the company for the year 2014. A year later, in 1993, he became company operations manager for Unilever in the UK.
During his 27 years at Unilever, Lewis occupied various posts around the world. After working for the company for 12 years, Lewis moved to South America in 1996 to begin work as Marketing Director of River Plate which involved Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay. Three years later, in 1999, he moved to Indonesia where he worked as Managing Director of Unilever for the business of personal care of the country. From results produced by Unilever, Lewis managed to obtain an average annual growth rate of 30% for the business of personal care of Indonesia. He served at this post until September 2001. In 2002, he attended Harvard Business School where he completed the Advanced Management Programme before becoming Senior Vice President for Home and Personal Care of Central and Eastern Europe in 2002. He served at this post for three years. In 2005, he returned to the UK and worked as Managing Director of the UK's home and personal care business.
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