Donald Brydon

Sir Donald Hood Brydon CBE (born 1945) is a British businessman who is chairman of the Sage Group and of the Charities Chance to Shine and The Science Museum Foundation.[1]

Sir

Donald Brydon
CBE
Born25 May 1945
Stirling
NationalityBritish
OccupationBusinessman

He was previously chairman of London Stock Exchange Group, Royal Mail, Smiths Group, the London Metal Exchange, Amersham plc, Taylor Nelson Sofres, ifs School of Finance, the Medical Research Council and EveryChild and a Director of Allied Domecq and Scottish Power.

Biography

Brydon went to George Watson's College, before studying at the University of Edinburgh and graduating in Mathematical Science in 1967. During this time he was chairman of the University's Conservative Association alongside his fellow Watsonian Malcolm Rifkind, who was secretary. He was also elected President of Edinburgh University Union. Brydon remained in Edinburgh to teach at the University for three years after graduation.[2]

In 1977 Brydon began a 20-year career working at Barclays, during which time he became chairman and chief executive of the company's investment arm, BZW Investment Management. From 1997 to 2002 Brydon was chief executive officer at Axa Investment Managers SA. In 2004 Brydon was awarded a CBE for services to the financial industry.[3]

As chairman of the Royal Mail, whilst in office for a period of six years Brydon oversaw the controversial privatisation of the 499-year-old institution.[4][5][6]

He resigned from the Royal Mail Group in 2015 and became chairman of the London Stock Exchange Group.[7]

Brydon was appointed a Knight Bachelor in the 2019 New Year Honours for services to Business and charity.

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gollark: It does seem like the governments responding to this have two states: completely ignoring the problem and wildly implementing over-the-top restrictions too late.
gollark: They do have other non-coronavirus stuff to compute too, don't they?
gollark: FTL: Faster than Light, a spaaaaaace roguelike thing, has players able to do all kinds of cool tricks because of interesting interactions between things, but the AI is dumb and can't do those. It can't even do prioritization right.
gollark: Which would be fun and interesting!

References
  1. "Donald Brydon CBE". Royal Mail Group. Archived from the original on 17 May 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  2. "Profile: Donald Brydon, Chairman, Taylor Nelson Sofres". The Telegraph. 18 May 2008. Retrieved 16 May 2014.
  3. "Donald H. Brydon CBE,BSc". Bloomberg Businessweek. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  4. "Royal Mail chairman Donald Brydon re-appointed". The Independent. 23 March 2012. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  5. "Chair Royal Mail Group". whatdotheyknow.com. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  6. "Royal Mail to cut 1,600 jobs following privatisation to 'reduce costs'". The Independent. 25 March 2014. Retrieved 15 May 2014.
  7. "Royal Mail chair Donald Brydon to join the London Stock Exchange board". The Telegraph. Retrieved 17 July 2018.
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