Gerry Murphy

Chair of Tesco

Dr Gerry Murphy is Chair of Burberry Group plc and Chair of Tesco plc, two of the UK’s most prominent listed companies. He was previously Chair of Tate & Lyle plc. He is also Senior Adviser at Perella Weinberg Partners, a global independent financial advisory firm.

Gerry was a Senior Managing Director (partner) in Blackstone’s private equity unit where he guided the firm’s investments and governance across a diverse portfolio of international companies and was Chair of Blackstone in Europe until 2019. Earlier in his career, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Kingfisher plc, Carlton Communications plc (now ITV plc), Exel plc and Greencore Group plc, developing a reputation for operational transformation, strategic repositioning, and shareholder value creation.

He was a Non-Executive director of British American Tobacco plc, Reckitt Benckiser plc, Abbey National plc, Merlin Entertainments plc, Novar plc, Intertrust NV, Hornbach Holding AG, United Biscuits Limited and Michaels Stores Inc.
Gerry began his career in Ireland, the UK and the USA with Grand Metropolitan plc (now Diageo plc).