David Tyler

Sainsbury's Director: Chairman

Appointed to the Board on 1 October 2009, David became Chairman on 1 November 2009 and was also Chairman of the Nomination Committee. David has broad and extensive experience in both executive and non-executive roles across the consumer, retail, business services and the financial services sectors. He is also an experienced chairman having served in that role previously at Logica plc and 3i Quoted Private Equity plc and currently at Hammerson plc and Domestic and General Group Limited. His last executive position was as Finance Director of GUS plc, and previously he held senior financial and general management roles with Christie’s International Plc, County NatWest Limited and Unilever PLC. He has also been a Non-Executive Director of Experian plc, Reckitt Benckiser Group plc and Burberry Group Plc. David Tyler stepped down as chairman on 9 March 2019.