Terence Leahy

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Mr. Terence Patrick Leahy serves as Chairman at But International. Previously, he served as a Board Member at Starcount. He also serves as Senior Advisor, Consumer & Retail at Clayton, Dubilier & Rice. He was a Chairman at B&M Retail. He serves as Chairman of BUT. He is a Board member of Syrenis. He became a senior CD&R advisor in 2011 and is based in London. He is former chief executive of Tesco. In his 32-year career at Tesco plc, he helped to transform the company into the third in largest retailer in the world, servinga number of senior positions, including Chief Executive Officer from 1997 to 2011. During his Chief Executive Officertenure, Tesco quadrupled both sales and profits and expanded into new products, store formats, lines of business and geographies. He was chancellor of UMIST, his alma mater, from 2002 until 2004, when he became a co-chancellor of the newly-formed University of Manchester. He was honored with a Doctor of Science from Cranfield University in June 2007.