Thread by @artisbrutal2021

Teigen still on Twatter? I'm struck by the list of UK accounts that 'liked' this..

🤔

I remember back in 2017 when..

https://twitter.com/chrissyteigen/status/1567573077101510656

when Teigen did some promo for McDonalds .. here with Steve Easterbrook who was a director of PizzaExpress before moving to McDonalds HQ in East Finchley

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1470688390811205640

Something must have been wrong with Steve's elbow when they took this pic 🙄

anyway, I feel I need to look at Mr Easterbrook again

"Downfall of the lord of the fries: He's the Watford Grammar School boy who rose from flipping burgers to running the global McDonald's empire. But, asks RUTH SUNDERLAND, did MeToo mania trigger Steve Easterbrook's departure?" - Daily Mail

dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7…

"Steve Easterbrook is the boy from Watford who fell in love with McDonald’s as an 11-year-old in 1978 and rose to become chief executive of the quintessential American brand....

Watford again 🤔

"But his dismissal has sparked a furious debate over whether, in a post-#MeToo world, the pendulum has swung too far against male bosses..."

Emphasis on MeToo .. yup, the old 'smoke & mirrors' gig.. go on..

"After allegations of sexual abuse against former film producer Harvey Weinstein, companies have rightly been zealous in trying to outlaw unwanted sexual advances and wandering hands in the workplace..."

1 , 2 , 3

"But is there a danger of hounding out high-achieving men because of trivial misdemeanours, or even for nothing worse than an office romance? Can a blunt corporate policy ever really do justice to the nuanced..terrain of modern sexual mores?.."

Ah, the moral panic argument..

"He grew up in the unprepossessing Hertfortdshire town of Watford, where he attended the local state grammar school. Although he has been living in Chicago, where McDonald’s has its headquarters, he still loyally supports his hometown team, Watford FC...

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1533738187683659778

"As a boy, he and a friend would catch a train to Harrow to visit the McDonald’s there, back when the burger chain was still viewed as an aspirational and exotic arrival in Britain..."

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"After training as an accountant with Price Waterhouse, he took his first job at McDonald’s in the 1990s, cutting his teeth as manager of a branch near his home town on the A41 ..

"By 2006, he was in charge of the UK business and also became president of northern European operations. In 2011 he briefly left to become chief executive of the Pizza Express and Wagamama restaurant chains, but rejoined McDonald’s in 2013

"Coincidentally, he is not the only high-flyer in the family to have had a professional setback recently. His sister-in-law Jill Easterbrook is leaving her job as CEO of fashion firm Boden after a profit warning...

plc.autotrader.co.uk/who-we-are/the…

Apparently Boden is popular with the Camerons, BoJo and Michelle Obama .. just saying

marieclaire.co.uk/news/fashion-n…

Jillian Easterbrook was a director at J.P. Boden between 2017 and 2019

…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/026926…

A few other interesting directors there, like
Crispin TWEDDELL , appointed on
17 December 1999

Resigned on 31 July 2012

piper.co.uk/our-team/crisp…

Crispin founded Piper in 1985 ..having left his position as MD at Fitch & Co ... He went on to start the hugely successful Pitcher & Piano brand, which was sold to Marston’s in 1996

Crispin is on the board of Flat Iron & Hickory’s Smokehouse

Coincidentally,

Graeme Hossie was a consultant to Pitcher & Piano and Piper Trust between 1995 and 1997

archive.ph/B2RH7

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1481984737384312832

Lady Susanne Olivier and husband Graeme Hossie were both directors of Steribottle and Venture Development

along with
Nicholas SALAMAN
…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/MHhwL…

husband of Lyndsay Salaman, contact person for the Eaton Square Schools, Fulham Road: rbkc.gov.uk/pdf/MFE%20PROV…

who are part of the Dukes Education family eatonsquareschools.com

dukeseducation.com

Founder of Dukes Education is AATIF HASSAN dukeseducation.com/a-message-from…

2019

"Our Chairman, Aatif Hassan, attended a dinner at Buckingham Palace last week where he was able to discuss the Prince’s Trust & other charities with Prince Charles. Following the dinner, Aatif had a meeting with the Prince of Wales’s office in St James’s Palace .."

Hassan used to be an equity manager at August Equity
thepienews.com/gallery/educat…

theglobals.net/core/global-aw…

The Most Outstanding Strategist in the Over 50s Capital Assembly Market in the World in 2011 - Aatif Hassan

Aatif is mentioned in this "Education Not For Sale" doc 👇

https://twitter.com/artisbrutal2021/status/1557281504887177217

".. Aatif Hassan, a partner in the firm August Equity, said:“The current government is offering a pretty positive environment [to private equity in education]. Gove and his advisers are very pro private equity, and very pro-private. I’m sure if you got them under Chatham House.."

"Jose Rodriguez, a director of Sovereign Capital, the private equity firm co-founded by the education minister Lord Nash, said: “We decided over 10 years ago to focus on education as one of our key sectors.“"

…te.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/gFtQp… 👀

https://twitter.com/allthecitizens/status/1374052211127386114

"And Matthew Robb, a partner at The Parthenon Group, which sponsored the event and describes itself as having a “vision to the leading strategic advisor to the global education industry”, said there were “lots of opportunities” in the early years sector of English education.

"Robb said: “Of every [sector of education] it’s the
closest to a voucher system. Therefore, there are lots of opportunities in nurseries.”" 🤔

EY CEO - Carmine Di Sibio
ey.com/en_gl/people/c…

Harvey Weinstein , Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell at Beatrice's 18th birthday party.

King's Foundation

* Hauser & Wirth * Groucho
* Judy Dench

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