Nationality British Occupation Chairman, BT Group | Children 4 Name Michael Rake | |
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Full Name Michael Derek Vaughan Rake Born 17 January 1948 (age 76) ( 1948-01-17 ) Rugby, Warwickshire, England Spouse(s) Julia Cook (1970)
Caroline Thomas (1986) Parents Rosamond Barrett, Derek Shannon Vaughan Rake Similar People Howard Davies, John Banham, Adair Turner - Baron Tur, Terence Beckett, Digby Jones - Baron Jo | ||
Itu interviews sir michael rake chairman bt group
Sir Michael Derek Vaughan Rake (born 17 January 1948) is a British businessman, he is chairman of BT Group, chairman of Worldpay and a director of S&P Global. He served as president of the CBI from 2013 until 2015.
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- Itu interviews sir michael rake chairman bt group
- Sir michael rake chairman of bt group president of the confederation of british industry 1
- Early life
- Career
- Board positions
- Personal life
- References
Sir michael rake chairman of bt group president of the confederation of british industry 1
Early life
Rake was born in Rugby on 17 January 1948, the son of Derek Shannon Vaughan Rake and Rosamond née Barrett. He went to prep school in Devon, followed by Wellington College. He qualified as a chartered accountant.
Career
He joined KPMG in 1974, and worked in continental Europe before transferring to the Middle East to run the practice for three years in 1986. He transferred to London in 1989, became a member of the UK board in 1991, had a number of leadership roles in the UK before being elected UK Senior Partner in 1998. He was Chairman of KPMG in Europe and Senior Partner of KPMG in the United Kingdom, prior to his appointment as chairman of KPMG International in May 2002, in which capacity he served till September 2007.
Board positions
Rake was chairman of Business in the Community from 2004–2007 and a member of the board of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum between 1998–2007. He was chairman of easyJet from 2010 to April 2013.
Rake is a vice president of the RNIB, a member of the board of the TransAtlantic Business Dialogue, the Chartered Management Institute, the DTI’s US/UK Regulatory Taskforce, the Advisory Council for Business for New Europe, the Ethnic Minority Employment Taskforce, an Association Member of BUPA, The School of Oriental and African Studies advisory board, the advisory board of the Judge Institute at the University of Cambridge, Senior Adviser for Chatham House and the Global Advisory Board of the Oxford University Centre for Corporate Reputation. Rake is also a governor of Wellington College and a board member of Guards Polo Club. Rake was on the board of Barclays from 2008 to December 2015; he was promoted to deputy chairman in 2012, but turned down the offer to become chairman.
As of 2013, Rake was a trustee of The Prince of Wales's Charitable Foundation. He was president of the CBI from June 2013 to July 2015.
Personal life
He is married with four children and five stepchildren, and was knighted in 2007.