Ruby McGregor-Smith
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The Right Honourable The Baroness McGregor-Smith CBE |
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Ruby McGregor-Smith
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22 February 1963 (age 54) Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India |
| Residence | London, England |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Former CEO, Mitie Group PLC |
| Salary | £2,572,412 (2016) |
| Term | 2006-17 |
| Successor | Phil Bentley |
| Spouse(s) | Graham McGregor-Smith |
| Children | 2 |
Ruby McGregor-Smith, Baroness McGregor-Smith, CBE (born 22 February 1963) is the former CEO of Mitie Group PLC, a strategic outsourcing company headquartered in Bristol, from 2007 to 2016. She was nominated as a Conservative life peer in August 2015.
McGregor-Smith joined Mitie as group financial director in 2002 and was promoted to CEO in 2007. She was the only Asian female chief executive of a FTSE 250 company at this time. She was awarded a CBE in 2012 for services to business and promoting diversity. During the decade she spent at Mitie, the firm increased its turnover by £1.5bn billion, which passed the £2bn mark for the first time in 2012.
McGregor-Smith was born in 1963 in Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, in northern India. She moved to the UK aged two with her mother, joining her father who was training as an accountant in London. She grew up in Stanmore in the London Borough of Harrow, attending Bentley Wood High School and Lowland Sixth Form College before graduating from Kingston University in 1985 with a degree in economics.
Following university, McGregor-Smith trained for six years as an accountant at BDO Stoy Hayward. After qualifying, she joined Serco Group PLC, an outsourcing firm, in 1991, where she worked for nine years in a range of operational and financial roles.
In 2002, after a brief spell at the facilities management firm Service Group International (SGI), McGregor-Smith joined Mitie Group PLC as group financial director. In 2005 she was promoted to group chief operating officer, and became CEO two years later when her predecessor Ian Stewart retired to take over the role of deputy chairman. As the first Asian female chief executive of a FTSE 250 company, the appointment received extensive press coverage.
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