Val Gooding

Val Gooding, CBE was Chief Executive of Bupa, from 1998 to May 2008. She was appointed a CBE for services to business in 2002.[1] She has been credited various entrepreneur awards since her Executiveship. Fortune magazine calls her one of the most successful women.[2] She was named as the highest earning female executive in Britain during 2004, being paid more than £1.4 million in salary and bonuses.[3]

Career

Gooding joined BUPA from British Airways where she held a number of executive positions. She is a non-executive director of J Sainsbury plc (since January 2007) and of Standard Chartered Bank plc (since January 2005). She is a member of the Council of the University of Warwick and of the Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School. She is a Trustee of the British Museum, a non-executive director of the Lawn Tennis Association and a non-executive director of the BBC.[4][5]

Val joined Premier Farnell in June 2011 as chairman.

References
  1. "Big shot: Val Gooding of Vodafone". Times. 4 December 2013.
  2. 50 Most Powerful Women in Business 2006, International: Val Gooding | FORTUNE
  3. Revealed: highest-earning woman executive in Britain - Scotsman.com Business
  4. BBC Executive Board
  5. First Women Awards


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