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| Tony Smith, Chairman
Tony Smith is a former Director of Unilever in the UK having recently retired after almost 30 years with the business. In all he has worked in the UK Grocery industry for 40 years and has been involved with Caravan for the last 10 years. |
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Judith Batchelar
Judith is a director of Sainsbury’s brand and has worked in the industry for 27 years, both in manufacturing and retailing working for Bass, Mars, Marks & Spencer and Safeway before joining Sainsburys. She is also a biochemist and nutritionist by profession and takes an active role in public health matters. |
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| John Black
John has been involved in the grocery industry for over 40 years. His first 5 years was in retail before joining The Imperial Food Group where over the course of 14 years he held a number of senior Sales Roles. John joined the SHS Group in 1983 as Managing Director of SHS Sales & Marketing (GB) and in early 2007 he took on the new role of Non Executive Chairman. John has been involved with Caravan for over 10 years as an active member of the PFRC. 
Zameer Choudrey
Zameer is Group Chief Executive of Bestway Group, having joined the company in 1984 as Financial Controller. This is not the first involvement with Caravan for Zameer, as he was previously Chairman of the charity's trading arm - N.G.B.F. Trading Ltd.
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| Bart Dalla Mura
Bart has been involved in the grocery trade for nearly 20 years. He has held sales and marketing roles in a variety of businesses, including soft drinks, pet food and software & baking. Bart became more involved with Caravan when he joined the Presdent's Fundraising Committee in 2005. |
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| David Hudson
David spent 35 years in the food and drink industry most of which was with Nestlé, including four years in Japan. After a number of marketing roles in petfoods, healthcare and coffees, David's last role before he retired was as Nestlé's director of communications and corporate affairs. Over the years, he has been actively involved with the FDF, CBI, IGD & ISBA. |
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Geraldine Huse
Geraldine is General Manager and Customer Business Development (UK & Ireland) at Procter & Gamble UK. Geraldine's association with Caravan began with her role on the President's Fundraising Committee. She became a Trustee of Caravan in February 2010. |
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| Nigel Matthews OBE
Nigel retired from J Sainsbury plc in 2001 after 25 years as Company Secretary. During his career he was heavily involved with the industry’s trade associations and relations with government. He was awarded the OBE in June 2000 for services to food retailing. He has been a Trustee of Caravan since February 2003 and is Chair of the Welfare Strategy Group. |
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| Tony Paine
Tony joined Waitrose in 1968. After holding branch managers posts, he was appointed to the position of a Group Operations Manager in 1979. Tony has been involved with Caravan for many years including holding the posts of both Secretary and Chairman of the South Coast Branch and Chairman of Welfare for two terms of office. He is also Caravan’s Honorary Treasurer. |
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Ruston Smith
Ruston is the Group Pensions and Insurable Risk Director at Tesco where he has been employed for nearly 6 years. Previously he worked for 12 years with PZ Cussons, an international manufacturer of soaps and detergents, where he was a director and company secretary. Ruston is an associate of the Pensions Management Institute, and has an MBA from Manchester University. |
