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John Mayo, CBE
John Mayo graduated in Economics from Loughborough University and qualified as a Chartered Accountant. As an investment banker in the eighties and early nineties, John Mayo advised among others on the spin-off of Zeneca Group plc by ICI plc; the privatization of Irish Life ($750 million) and the IPO of Wellcome plc ($1.5 billion). In 1997, he initiated the merger between Zeneca and Astra, and in September 1997 John left to join The General Electric Company plc as Finance Director. He has founded and grown several businesses including Beehive Capital LLP, and Salisbury Associates. During the last 10 years he has served as a non-executive director on the boards of the following public companies: Schlumberger, Alstom, Newcastle United, and Pentland. He has also served on the following public bodies: The Takeover Panel; The Confederation of British Industry’s Companies Committee; Her Majesty’s Treasury Public Sector Productivity Panel; and the FTSE Policy Committee. In 1999, John Mayo was made a Commander of the British Empire (CBE), in recognition of his services to British industry. John Mayo is a founder of Celtic Pharma, a global private equity firm focused on the pharmaceutical industry. He is a British citizen and is based in London.
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