Nationality British Salary £857,920 Successor Ashley Almanza Years active 1983–2013 Alma mater Coventry University | Occupation Businessman Role Businessman Ethnicity White British Name Nick Buckles | |
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Full Name Nicholas Peter Buckles Born 1 February 1961 (age 63) ( 1961-02-01 ) Title Former Chief Executive, G4S plc People also search for Ashley Almanza, John P. Connolly | ||
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Nicholas Peter Buckles (born 1961) is a British businessman.
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- Olympic scandal as security firm g4s ceo nick buckles buckles under interrogation
- G4s nick buckles
- Early career
- Securicor and G4S
- References
G4s nick buckles
Early career
He was born on 1 February 1961. At the age of sixteen, he had his first job as a Christmas postman in Essex. He then went on to study business at Lanchester Polytechnic.
Securicor and G4S
He joined Securicor in 1985 as a project accountant. He served as Deputy Chief Executive and Chief Operating Officer of G4S plc from May 2004 to July 2005. He served as the Chief Executive Officer of G4S from 2005 to 2013. He initially kept his job, despite the fiasco at the 2012 Summer Olympics, but stood down on 31 May 2013 and was succeeded by Ashley Almanza, formerly of BG Group. He was also Chairman of the Ligue Internationale des Sociétés de Surveillance, the international association of leading security companies.
He has said his hero is Margaret Thatcher because "she led the biggest economic turnaround in recent history."