Sir Victor Blank

Career: ptnr Clifford-Turner (slrs) 1969-81; Charterhouse plc: head of corporate finance and md Charterhouse Bank Ltd 1981-85, chief exec 1985-96, chm 1991-97, chm Charterhouse Bank Ltd 1985-97; chm Mirror Gp 1998-99, chm Trinity Mirror plc 1999-2006, dep chm Coats plc (formerly Coats Viyella plc) 1999-2003 (non-exec dir 1989-2003); GUS plc (formerly The Great Universal Stores plc): non-exec dir 1993, dep chm 1996-2000, chm 2000; chm Lloyds TSB Gp plc 2006-; non-exec dir: Williams plc 1995-2000, Chubb plc 2000-04; chm: WellBeing of Women (formerly Birthright) 1989-, Industrial and Devpt Advsy Bd 1999-2004; memb: Cncl Univ of Oxford 2000-, Fin Reporting Cncl 2003-, Advsy Cncl Orch of the Age of Enlightenment; tstee Oxford Univ Law Fndn 1998-2001; advsr: Oxford Environmental Change Unit, RSA; vice-pres Oxford Philomusica; chm of govrs UCS; Freeman City of London; hon fell St Catherine's Coll Oxford 2003-; memb: City of London Slrs' Co, Law Soc; CIMgt, Hon FRCOG 1998