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
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
"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...
"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..."
🕵️🤫🤔
"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...
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
"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 .."
".. 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.“"
"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.”" 🤔
"President and founder of a group of 500 people, Sylvain Forestier saw his company taken over at the bar of the court. The experience helped him build La Maison Bleue, a network of 90 crèches."
"In December 2002, his customer database management company filed for bankruptcy. D Interactive was nevertheless valued at 150 million euros, employed 500 people, and worked for Renault , Danone , Heineken and L'Oréal . ..
" We were trapped by an operation that was beyond us , analyzes Jean-François Lanièce, Sylvain Forestier's partner from Essec, then in charge of finance. Investors were looking for hypergrowth companies. To attract them , the two entrepreneurs are multiplying growth operations.
"The names of 50 firms given a fast-track ‘VIP lane’ route to securing lucrative Test and Trace contracts have at last been revealed, following our longstanding Freedom of Information battle with Government."
- Good Law Project
"It has emerged that Coffey, who told the BBC on Wednesday that she had been appointed to the health portfolio because of her “grasp of detail”, had to leave Oxford’s Somerville College after failing examinations in chemistry."
"Coffey was a student there from October 1989 to March 1991, following in the footsteps of Margaret Thatcher, who graduated from Somerville after studying chemistry – a parallel that has been approvingly highlighted on more than one occasion...
"..At no stage has Coffey described herself as a graduate of Oxford University. Her profile on the government’s website has a single line under education: “Thérèse graduated from University College London (UCL) w/ a PhD in chemistry.” She also has a bachelor’s degree in chemistry