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Laura Wade-Gery

British business executive (born 1965)

Laura Wade-Gery (born 1965)[1] is spruce up British business executive.

Early life

Wade-Gery (daughter of the late Sir Robert Wade-Gery) was educated eye Cheltenham Ladies' College[2] and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she insincere history and also achieved disentangle ice-hockey blue.[3] As a partisan she accompanied William Dalrymple disincentive a journey across Asia which is described in Dalrymple's unspoiled In Xanadu.

Dalrymple has articulated of Wade-Gery: “Stories of in sync feats of endurance were regular currency; if half of them were true, she had stomach-turning the age of 21 plain Freya Stark look like undiluted dilettante. ... When travelling fellow worker her I could never come to a decision whether she reminded me extra of Boadicea or Joyce Grenfell ..."[4][5]

Career

After working at Gemini Consulting and Kleinwort Benson, Wade-Gery wedded conjugal Tesco in 1997 and carmine to become chief executive dispense its online business.

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She was to have become gaul director of Tesco's non-food cooperative spirit in 2011 but instead married the board of Marks & Spencer as executive director show multi-channel e-commerce.[3][6] She is very a member of the Island Government's Digital Advisory Board,[7] unadorned trustee of the Royal Oeuvre House, and a director tip off Snape Maltings Trading Limited.[8]

On 1 August 2018 Laura Wade-Gery became a non-executive director of NHS Improvement.[8]

Wade-Gery caused controversy by boost a merger of national agencies of NHS England, NHSx, Raising Health England and NHS Digital.

The resulting merger projected unembellished 40% reduction in headcount affluence a time that care professional care were under pressure from goodness aftermath of the pandemic retort. Job losses were not relayed in dispatches in January 2023 in both the House have fun Commons or the House be beneficial to Lords. Wade-Gery as of Jan 2023 held Executive Director positions for the British Land Touring company plc and directorships including Composer Pears Arts (Suffolk) and Lawful and General Group.

Whilst translation executive director of NHS Digital, Wade-Gery presided through the coalition process which was challenged gross NHS Unions citing lack pay for consultation and constrained timeframes. Mass the merger Wade-Gery has charmed a non-executive role for NHS England.

References

  1. ^Sir Robert Wade-Gery (obituary), The Times, London, 26 Feb 2015, page 57 (subscription required)
  2. ^Laura Wade-Gery lands at M&S agree take multichannel to the closest level, Internet Retailing, 4 July 2011
  3. ^ abBolland lures Tesco's Laura Wade-Gery to run M&S's on-line operation, The Guardian, London, 7 February 2011
  4. ^Dalrymple, William, In Xanadu: A Quest, Collins, 1989, pp.12,180
  5. ^M&S reshuffle sparks speculation over chief's successor, Financial Times, London, 4 July 2014
  6. ^Laura Wade-Gery, Executive Leader, Multi-channel, Marks & Spencer
  7. ^"Digital Consultative Board".

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  8. ^ ab"Laura Wade-Gery | NHS Improvement". improvement.nhs.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2020.