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Michael Hodgkinson
British business man From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Sir Michael Stewart Hodgkinson (born 7 April 1944) is a British business man.
Early life
The son of Stewart Gordon Hodgkinson and his wife Ruth Phyllis Pentelow, Hodgkinson was born in 1944,[1] while his father was serving as a junior officer in the Royal Artillery.[2] A few months later, his father transferred as a Lieutenant to the Essex Regiment.[3]
He was educated at Hornchurch Grammar School and the University of Nottingham, graduating BA in Industrial Economics in 1965. He went on to qualify as an accountant in 1969.[1][4]
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Career
Hodgkinson's first significant role was as managing director of Land Rover-Range Rover from 1978 to 1983. In 1986, he was appointed as Chief Executive of Grand Metropolitan’s European Food Division and in 1992 as Group Airports Director at BAA plc.[4] He was chief executive of Heathrow Airport Holdings from 1999 to 2003, in which year he was knighted.[5][1] He was next Non-Executive Chairman of Post Office Limited.[6]
In 2007, as chairman of First Choice, Hodgkinson took it into a merger with the German company TUI, which controlled Thomson Holidays.[7] He was elected to the supervisory board of TUI Group and became its vice-chairman, and was still serving in that position in 2016.[8]
Hodgkinson went on to serve as Chairman of Keolis UK Ltd from December 2011 to 2019.[1][9] In May 2018, the Wales & Borders franchise was awarded to KeolisAmey Wales, which received a contract valued at £5 billion covering a 15-year period starting on 14 October 2018.[10]
Until 2013, when he was replaced by Daniel Moylan, Hodgkinson was the Transport for London nominee as a non-executive director of Crossrail.[11]
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Personal life
In 1988, Hodgkinson married Elspeth Holman, the daughter of Michael Holman and Dorothy Napier, and they have a son and two daughters.[1] They live in the St Katharine Docks area of the East End of London.
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