Glyn Barker
Biography
Glyn has been a trusted adviser to FTSE 100 and other public and private company boards for over 25 years. He also has a track record of working with entrepreneurial, fast growth businesses.
Glyn was the first non-executive appointment to the Board in 2012, becoming Chair in the same year. Glyn is also Chair of our Nomination Committee.
Prior to this, Glyn was Vice Chair of PWC UK having also been a Managing Partner at the firm. He was also a non-executive director at Aviva plc for eight years, including three as senior independent director.
For seven years Glyn was also the Deputy Chair and Trustee of English National Opera.
He is the current Chair of FTSE 100 constituent Berkeley Group Holdings plc as well as a director at Transocean, Tappit and Various Eateries Ltd.
Glyn is also a Partner at Song Capital Partners, a UK and European investment firm.
Glyn studied Economics and Accounting at Bristol University.
Membership
- Non-Executive Director of the Board of property development company The Berkeley Group.
- Former vice-chairman of PricewaterhouseCoopers, where I also played a major role in building its global private equity business, ran its Assurance Business for four years and acted as UK Managing Partner between 2006 and 2008
- I was also an adviser to many leading FTSE 100 companies and a number of high profile entrepreneurs, and advised on many private equity deals, IPOs and public company takeovers.