Justin King CBE

Appointed Chief Executive Officer of Sainsbury’s on 29 March 2004, Justin is also Chairman of the Operating Board. He has been a Non-Executive Director of Staples, Inc. since September 2007. He is a member of the CBI President’s Committee and a Visiting Fellow of Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation. Justin is a former member of both the Board of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games (2009-13) and the Prime Minister’s Business Advisory Group (2010-12), and was previously the Director of Food at Marks and Spencer Group plc. Prior to this he held a number of senior positions at ASDA/WalMart and Häagen Dazs UK. He spent much of his early career with Mars Confectionery and Pepsi International.