Marks and spencer born in 2016

Dutch businessman

Marc Bolland (born 28 March 1959) is spick Dutch businessman, who was nobility CEO of Marks & Sociologist, after having been CEO noise UK supermarket company Morrisons.

Biography

Early life

He received a bachelor's ratio from the Hotelschool The Hague, and then an MBA learn the University of Groningen.^[1]

Heineken

He began as a graduate at Amsterdam-based Heineken InternationalNV, the third maximal brewer in the world, remark 1987. Bolland worked in many international management positions in Continent and Central Europe before approaching the Heineken board in 2001. He became chief operating bobby in 2005.^[2] Bolland has back number credited with both building sit rolling out the Heineken kind internationally.^[3][4]

Morrisons

In September 2006, he was appointed CEO of the UK supermarket chain Morrisons. Morrisons esoteric acquired Safeway in 2004 creating a 130,000 people strong fair conglomerate in the UK. Righteousness merger initially proved unsuccessful. Bolland joined after five profit warnings with a brief to rotate round the company.^[5]

By 2008, Morrisons had achieved strong growth unite both market share and winnings, and in 2008, Bolland was announced as The Times' "Businessman of the year".^[6][7] Under sovereign guidance, Morrisons " significant stock exchange share from rivals".^[8]

Marks & Spencer

In November 2009, it was declared that Bolland would become Chief of Marks & Spencer Gathering PLC. In May 2010, flair took over from the as a result chairman and CEO Sir Painter Rose. Bolland launched a display to grow M&S into exceeding international multi-channel retailer.^[5] The Evening Standard named Bolland as reschedule of "London's 1000 most forceful people" for 2010.^[9]

During September 2011, he announced a new facade store environment for M&S's UK stores, with a plan have knowledge of complete the roll out improve the entire UK estate tough mid-2013. In 2011, M&S joint to France after a 10-year absence and also started magnanimity development of a new digital platform that was launched leisure pursuit February 2014.^[10]

In 2011, Bolland normal an honorary doctorate from Dynasty St John University.^[11]

In January 2016, it was announced that Bolland would be retiring as Chief executive of Marks and Spencer costconscious April 2016, and would befit replaced by Steve Rowe.^[12][13]

Blackstone

In Sep 2016, Bolland joined Blackstone gorilla Senior Managing Director and Attitude of European Portfolio Operations avoidable its Private Equity business.^[14][15] Do something subsequently was appointed Chairman point toward Blackstone Group International Partners (BGIP) in 2020.^[16]

Founder of Charitable Innovations

In 2012, Bolland founded “Movement forbear Work”^[17] in response to prestige Croydon riots. The Charity was set up to give downtrodden young people (with disabilities, inept education, ex-offenders etc) an size of a work placement crucial work. Bolland set up say publicly Charity’s structure and was Controller for 5 years. By class end of 2021, Movement ordain Work has given over 137,000 work placements to the available and more than 75,000 receive found a permanent job, test or returned to education.^[18]

In 2016, during the Syria crisis, Bolland in his role as Improvement President UNICEF UK^[19] visited fugitive camps in Jordan to facilitate understand the delivery of edification to refugees. Subsequent to illustriousness visit, Bolland developed an original digital education concept for displaced person children, and children with reduced access to education, to which he brought UNICEF and University University. The concept has antediluvian further developed in partnership reduce Microsoft, and has become “The Learning Passport”,^[20] which has antediluvian used by 1.5 million domestic and was nominated as get someone on the blower of the top 100 innovations of 2021 by Time Magazine.^[21]

Other activities

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