Colin Sharman, Baron Sharman

Colin Morven Sharman, Baron Sharman , OBE (* 19th February 1943 ) is a British manager and politician of the Liberal Democrats , among others between 1997 and 1999 CEO of KPMG was and from 1999 to 2015 Life Peer member of the House of Lords was .

Life

Auditor and promotion to chairman of KPMG

After attending school and studying, Sharman joined the company Woolgar Hennel & Co as a sworn auditor after being accepted as a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales in 1965 , but switched to KPMG as an auditor a year later in 1966, where he worked 1977 to 1981 with expansions of the company in Benelux and Scandinavia . In 1980 he was honored with the Officer's Cross of the Order of the British Empire for his services . Subsequently, he was responsible for major investments in London until 1987 and from 1987 to 1990 Senior Partner of the National Marketing and Industry Groups and Chairman of the Marketing Committee of KPMG.

In addition, Sharman acted as senior partner for management consulting between 1989 and 1990 and was then senior partner of KPMG for the Greater London and South East England regions from 1990 to 1994 . At the same time he was CEO of KPMG Management Consultancy International between 1991 and 1994. This was followed by a position as Senior Partner of KPMG UK from 1994 to 1998, before he was most recently CEO of KPMG International between 1997 and 1999. In addition, he was a member of the supervisory board of AEA Technology plc from 1996 to 2002 .

House of Lords

By a letters patent dated August 2, 1999, Sharman, who has been an "ambassador" of Merseyside since 1998 and was awarded an honorary doctorate from Cranfield University in 1998, became a life peer with the title Baron Sharman, of Redlynch in the County of Wiltshire in the Nobility raised. Shortly after its introduction was carried out ( Introduction ) as a member of the House of Lords . In the upper house it belongs to the faction of the Liberal Democrats .

In the following years he took on numerous functions in the private sector and was, among other things, CEO of the Aegis Group between 1999 and 2008 and a member of the supervisory board of Young & Co's Brewery from 1999 to 2002. He has also been a member of the supervisory board of BG Group since 2000 and of Reed Elsevier since 2002 and was also a member of the supervisory board of G4S from 2003 to 2005 . Since 2006 he has been chairman of Aviva . On April 30, 2015, Sharman voluntarily retired and left the House of Lords under the rules of the House of Lords Reform Act 2014.

Web links

• Entry on Parliament's homepage (accessed on November 29, 2012)
• Colin Sharman at Hansard (English)
• Entry in They Work For You (accessed November 29, 2012)
• Biography in Debrett's (accessed November 29, 2012)