Val Gooding

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Val Gooding is Chief Executive of BUPA, a position she has held since 1998. She was awarded the CBE for services to business in 2002. She has been credited various entrepreuneur awards since her Executiveship. Fortune magazine calls her one of the most successful women.^[1] She was named as the highest earning female executive in Britain during 2004, being paid more than £1.4 million in salary and bonuses. ^[2]

On the 14th of February 2008, Val Gooding announced her retirement as the Chief Executive of BUPA. She will step down on the 15th of May. Ray King, current financial director will succeed her position.^[3]

Gooding joined BUPA from British Airways where she held a number of execuitve positions. She is a non-executive director of J Sainsbury plc (since January 2007) and of Standard Chartered Bank plc (since January 2005). She is a member of the Council of Warwick University and of the Advisory Board of the Warwick Business School. She is a Trustee of the British Museum, and a non-executive director of the Lawn Tennis Association.^[4]