Dominic William Blakemore (born June 1969), is a British businessman, the chief executive (CEO) of

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. Originally due to take up the post on 1 April 2018, the appointment was brought forward following the death of the CEO

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in a plane crash in Australia on 31 December 2017. Yahoo News listed his annual compensation as totalling £4.7 million in 2019. He trained at

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, then worked for

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from 2004 to 2006, then Iglo Foods (now known as

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), rising to chief financial officer. He is also listed at Companies House as having been corporate finance director of Camelot UK Lotteries Limited, part of

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, from September 2008 to July 2010. Blakemore joined Compass Group in April 2012 as finance director. He was appointed chief operating officer on 1 December 2015 and stepped down as finance director the same day. On 1 October 2017 he was appointed deputy CEO. Blakemore was a non-executive director of Shire plc between January 2014 and April 2018 and a member of the academic council of

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(a university he graduated from in 1991).https://www.compass-group.com/content/dam/compass-group/corporate/Media/2017/Compass%20Group%20PLC%20CEO%20succession%20FINAL%20210917.pdf He was appointed a director of London Stock Exchange Group in January 2020.

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