Stuart Fletcher

Stuart Fletcher has held a wide portfolio of roles, including Chair and Non-Executive Director roles for privately owned businesses, trustee and advisory board roles, active angel investing and mentoring for CEO’s and Senior Executives.

Stuart’s executive career culminated as Group CEO of Bupa, a position he held for four years until May 2016. During Stuart’s tenure, Bupa was a leading global health and care company with 84,000 employees around the world, principally in the UK, Australia, Spain, Poland, New Zealand and Chile, as well as Saudi Arabia, Hong Kong, India, Thailand and the US, and had 32 million customers in 190 countries. With no shareholders, it reinvested profits to provide more and better healthcare and fulfil its purpose: longer, healthier, happier lives.

Before joining Bupa, Stuart spent 26 years in Senior Executive leadership positions with Diageo plc. He was President of Diageo International between 2004 and 2011, having been President of Key Markets from 2000 to 2004. Stuart held a number of other senior general management and finance positions with Diageo, including roles based in Japan, the US and Hong Kong. He previously held various financial roles with Procter & Gamble in the UK.

Stuart was formerly Chair of Radar Healthcare and is on the board of advisors for Yoomi. He is an active angel investor with 24Haymarket and on a direct basis and an advisor to Abstract Ice. He is also a member of the Advisory Board of 87% Ltd and a Fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants (FCCA).

Stuart has been married to Trish for 44 years, has a large extended family and loves music, hiking, skiing, cooking and wine.