Betty Thayer

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Betty Thayer (born 1958) is a businesswoman who advocates for Women in Business and lectures internationally on the role of the non-executive director. Thayer has been published extensively as an expert on these topics.

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Formerly Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Think London, Thayer has non-executive roles at the Piccola Accademia di Montisi in Italy and the Church Urban Fund. She is CEO of Exec-Appointments LTD, a subsidiary of The Financial Times, part of Pearson plc, and the non-executive director of businesses in the online executive and board recruitment sector.

She was a member of the management board at Lex Service PLC (now RAC plc) from 1995 to 1997. In her career at Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting, she specialised in lean manufacturing, including co-authoring with Professor Dan Jones The Lean Enterprise Benchmarking Report in 1994. In recent years, her views upon non-executive directorship have been drawn upon by a range of national media outlets, including The Daily Telegraph [1] and the BBC [2]. The Tyson Report on the Recruitment and Development of Non-Executive Directors, written by a taskforce including employees of the London Business School and the Department of Trade and Industry, drew upon Thayer's expertise[3]. She has also contributed to BBC Radio 4's Today Programme [4].

A dual U.S. and UK citizen, Thayer has an MBA from Vanderbilt University (1982) and is a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of World Traders, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants [5]. Thayer served as a panelist at the 5th Annual Women in Business Conference, held at London Business School [6], and was a judge at the Institute of Company Secretary’s (ICSA) Secretary of the Year Awards in October 2007.[7].

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Jones, D.T., Oliver, N., Delbridge, R., Lowe, J., Roberts, P., Thayer, B. (1994), The Second Lean Enterprise Report – Worldwide Manufacturing Competitiveness Study, Andersen Consulting, London.
Portfolio Working - Plural Careers Prove to Be a Singular Success. A survey by exec-appointments.com and IDDAS.

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Betty Thayer

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