Key People

John Peace John Peace was appointed as an independent Non-Executive Director and Deputy Chairman of Standard Chartered PLC on 1 August 2007. He is also Senior Independent Director.

He is Chairman of Experian Group Limited and Burberry Group plc. John is also Chairman of the Board of Governors of Nottingham Trent University, Deputy Lieutenant for the County of Nottinghamshire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and Chairman of The Work Foundation.

John joined GUS in 1970 where he held senior IT positions within the retail and home shopping divisions. In 1980, he co-founded CCN, a trading company formed by GUS that marketed information services to retailers and other lending organisations. CCN went on to become one of Europe's largest information services businesses and, following the acquisition of other major information services in the US and Europe, it became Experian and John became Chief Executive.

John was appointed to the Board of GUS plc in 1997 and became their Group Chief Executive in January 2000. During his tenure the group concentrated on three major businesses: Home Retail Group, Experian and Burberry and shareholder value more than trebled.

In 2002 John was appointed Chairman of Burberry in advance of its successful flotation. GUS demerged its remaining businesses in 2004 and he became Chairman of Experian.