Laura Wade-Gery

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

Early life

Wade-Gery (daughter of the late Sir Robert Wade-Gery) was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College[2] and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she studied history and also achieved an ice-hockey blue.[3] As a student she accompanied William Dalrymple on a journey across Asia which is described in Dalrymple's book In Xanadu. Dalrymple has said of Wade-Gery: “Stories of her feats of endurance were common currency; if half of them were true, she had by the age of 21 made Freya Stark look like a dilettante. ... When travelling with her I could never decide whether she reminded me more of Boadicea or Joyce Grenfell ..."[4][5]

Career

After working at Gemini Consulting and Kleinwort Benson, Wade-Gery joined Tesco in 1997 and rose to become chief executive of its online business. She was to have become commercial director of Tesco's non-food operation in 2011 but instead joined the board of Marks & Spencer as executive director of multi-channel e-commerce.[3][6] She is also a member of the British Government's Digital Advisory Board,[7] a trustee of the Royal Opera House, and a director of Snape Maltings Trading Limited.[8]

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

References
  1. Sir Robert Wade-Gery (obituary), The Times, London, 26 February 2015, page 57 (subscription required)
  2. Laura Wade-Gery lands at M&S to take multichannel to the next level, Internet Retailing, 4 July 2011
  3. Bolland lures Tesco's Laura Wade-Gery to run M&S's online 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 Director, Multi-channel, Marks & Spencer
  7. "Digital Advisory Board". GOV.UK.
  8. "Laura Wade-Gery | NHS Improvement". improvement.nhs.uk. Retrieved 23 March 2020.
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