Richard Andrew Baker

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Paid applies

Given you are perosnal assistant to RB, WP:PAID applies. That means no direct editing of the article. Also, need to request a User name change, as you are not Richard. David notMD (talk) 12:06, 12 February 2021 (UTC)

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Please Edit the following entry for Richard Andrew Baker

{{Richard Baker (born 6 August 1962) is a British businessman. In June 2019, Baker co-founded bd-capital, a private equity [18] firm, targeting growth buyouts in the European mid-market, with a Fund size of €400-500m. Also in 2019, Baker was elected to the Main Board of the All England Lawn & Tennis Club, and is also Chairman of the Commercial & Media Committee, and the Debentures Committee. Career After graduating from Downing College, Cambridge, Baker worked at Mars Confectionery for nearly 10 years, working his way up to sales and marketing director.[2][3] He joined of Asda Stores Ltd.[1] in 1995,[4] where he worked for the following 9 years becoming Marketing Director in 1999,[5] and ultimately chief operating officer in 2002, following their acquisition by Walmart.[6] In September 2003, Baker joined Boots Group as chief executive officer.[7] The company had been reporting losses following its ill-advised move into its 'Wellbeing' services, which included Dentistry, Massage and Botox.[8][9] Despite implementing a number of cost-cutting measures and extending opening hours, the company continued to struggle until October 2005 it announced it was to merge with competitor Alliance Unichem.[10] The announcement met with widespread opposition, but the merger was cleared by the OFT in February 2006 and completed in July that year.[11][12] Baker became chief executive officer of the new Alliance Boots GmbH.[13] In April 2007, after publishing annual results that showed a profit increase of 7.4%, Alliance Boots was sold to private equity firm KKR for £11.1 billion; the highest price ever paid by a private equity company for a British public company.[14][15] Baker left the company on completion of the transaction.[16] • Non-Executive Chairman of Virgin Active, 2008-2014[21] • Operating Partner at Advent International, 2009-2020[24] • Chairman of the European Division of Groupe Aeroplan, Nectar Loyalty Programme in the UK. It also has interests in other loyalty schemes across Europe, 2009-2017[19][20] • Chairman of Whitbread plc, 2014-2018 (NED 2009-2014)[22][23] • Non-Executive Director, Lawn Tennis Association, 2010-2018 • Chairman of DFS, 2010-2018, following Advent International's £500 million takeover of the furniture retail chain.[17] • Chairman of the British Retail Consortium, 2016-2018}}