Kate’s focus ensures that customers are close to the heart of organisational strategy, resulting in the transformation of customer relationships in her divisions. Her strong commercial leadership most recently resulted in a 3 year growth of over 3 times the market rate. She led the recovery of a loss making division from 7 years decline into sustainable profitable growth, and at GSK she doubled revenue, profit and market share moving from No.4 to No.2 market position within 3 years.

Kate led a major organisational change program from ‘end to end’ at Britvic where she created a fresh vision, led the development of a new business strategy and gained Group Board approval to proceed. As business sponsor and steering group chair she led the delivery that resulted in accelerated GB growth and a step change in employee engagement and retention.

Kate is recognised as a charismatic, bold and inspiring leader whose passion and coaching capability for creating high performing teams has resulted in significant talent development for organisations. Kate has led restructures, recruitment, training, team development, and fosters a strong coaching culture. Her leadership engenders energy, commitment and loyalty amongst team members.

Kate lives with her financial director husband in East Horsley, Surrey. Her interests include skiing, golf, sailing, hockey and music. In 2002 Kate competed in the Round the World Yacht Race. She played national league and representative hockey for 20 years, including England whilst at university, and was a member of the winning European Cup Winners team. She is also a classically trained pianist with a music scholarship at university. She currently pursues these interests at a more leisurely pace as she is mother to two young children. Kate holds a BSc (Hons) degree in Business Management Sciences from Brunel University.