Sir Philip Hampton

British businessman (born 1953)

Sir Philip Roy Hampton (born 5 October 1953) is a British businessman. He was the first chairman of UK Financial Investments Limited in 2008 and chairman of government-owned The Royal Bank of Scotland Group between 2009 and 2015.²

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Born Oct 5, 1953.¹

About

He has also chaired GlaxoSmithKline and J Sainsbury.

From Wikipedia’s article on Sir Philip Hampton, shared under CC BY-SA 4.0.²

Companies

GSKChair Jan 1, 2015 to Aug 31, 2019¹¹
NatWest GroupChair Feb 3, 2009 to Sep 2015¹²
UK Financial InvestmentsChair Nov 3, 2008 to Jan 19, 2009¹³

Early life and education

Date not recordedLincoln College Master of Arts; English³
Date not recordedINSEAD Master of Business Administration³

Career

Occupation: entrepreneur, banker.⁷

2015 to 2019Chair, GSK⁶
2009 to 2015Chair, NatWest Group⁵
2008 to 2009Chair, UK Financial Investments⁴

Hampton gained an MA in English from Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1975. He joined the accounting firm Coopers & Lybrand the same year, qualified as a chartered accountant in 1978, and then trained as an auditor, working in London and west Africa. He took an MBA from INSEAD from 1980 to 1981, and returned to join Lazards investment bank for nine years. Working on mergers, acquisitions, business restructurings and capital markets; in 1986 he was seconded to Lazard Freres, New York, and also worked extensively with Lazard Freres in Paris.

Since then Hampton has been finance director at a number of companies:

British Steel plc – group finance director from 1990 to 1995; the company were a former client at Lazards

British Gas plc – group finance director from 1995 to 1997; oversaw double-demerger of Centrica and then Lattice Group

BG Group – group finance director from 1997 to 2000

British Telecom – group finance director from 2000 to 2002

Lloyds TSB – group finance director from 2002 to 2004

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Personal life

BornOct 5, 1953, United Kingdom⁸
CitizenshipUnited Kingdom⁹

Awards

Date not recordedKnight Bachelor¹⁰

Sources

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