Project board
Phil Bentley
Managing Director, British Gas
Phil Bentley, 50, has been Managing Director, British Gas, since March 2007. Employing 28,000 people in the UK, British Gas is the Number 1 energy and services provider to British homes and businesses. Previously, he was Group Finance Director and Managing Director, Europe of Centrica plc.
Phil joined Centrica in November 2000 from Diageo where he was Global Finance Director for Guinness-UDV. Prior to that he was Group Treasurer and Director of Risk Management of Diageo plc.
Phil was previously at BP, where he spent 15 years in senior finance roles, 6 of which were spent in BP’s exploration businesses in China, the US and Egypt.
He holds a Masters Degree from Pembroke College, Oxford University and has an MBA from INSEAD in France. Phil is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants and is a member of the Association of Corporate Treasurers.
He is also a non-Executive Director, and Chairman of the Audit Committee, of Kingfisher plc, the international home improvement retailer.
He is married, with two teenage children and his interests include rugby, sailing, golf and horse-riding.
Justin King
CEO, Sainsbury’s
Justin King has been Chief Executive of Sainsbury’s since March 2004. Before joining Sainsbury’s, he was Director of Food at Marks & Spencer and prior to that held senior positions at ASDA/Wal-Mart and was Managing Director of Haagen-Dazs UK. His early career was at Mars Confectionery and Pepsi International.
Justin is President of the IGD, a member of the CBI President’s Committee and is a patron of Skillsmart Retail, the national sector skills council for retail.
He sits on the Board of Bath University Management School and is a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation.
He is a non-executive director of Staples Inc.
In January 2009 Justin was appointed to the Board of the London Organising Committee for the Olympics by Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London.
Justin lives in Warwickshire with his wife and two teenage children.
David Nussbaum
CEO, WWF-UK
David Nussbaum became Chief Executive of WWF-UK in May 2007.
David trained as an accountant with Price Waterhouse, and moved into venture capital. He then worked in manufacturing industry, latterly as Finance Director of Field Group plc, before joining Oxfam in 1997 as Finance Director and a Deputy Chief Executive.
In 2002 David joined Transparency International, the leading global anti-corruption organisation, as Chief Executive based in Berlin. Between 1991 and 2006, David was a non-executive director, and later Chair, of Traidcraft plc, and he is currently a non-executive director of Low Carbon Accelerator and of the fair trade organisation Shared Interest Society. He is Vice-Chair of the ACCA Social and Environmental Committee and a member of the Board of Transparency International, UK.
David was born in 1958, and has two degrees in theology and one in finance. He and his wife have four children and live in Buckinghamshire.