Adrian Hennah | J Sainsbury plc

Adrian joined the Board on 1 April 2021. He is Chair of the Audit Committee and a member of the Remuneration and Nomination and Governance Committees.

Adrian has significant financial and strategic expertise leading the performance and strategy of many large companies. He started his career working in audit and consultancy with PwC and Stadtsparkasse Köln, the German regional bank. Adrian spent 18 years in Chief Financial Officer roles at three FTSE 100 companies. He was Chief Financial Officer at Reckitt Benckiser (RB) for seven years and held the same position at Smith & Nephew and Invensys. Prior to this he spent 18 years at GlaxoSmithKline working in both finance and operations. He was also previously Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Audit Committee at RELX. Adrian currently serves as a Non-Executive Director of Oxford Nanopore Technologies plc, a Non-Executive Director of Unilever plc and a Trustee of Our Future Health.

Adrian brings extensive financial and leadership experience to Sainsbury’s gained from Chief Financial Officer positions held in some of the UK’s largest companies, notably at RB, which produces leading hygiene, health and nutritional brands.