Graham John Sharman (born 30 May 1938) is an

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former first-class

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er and

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player. Sharman was born in May 1938 at St Pancras. He was educated at

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, where he was coached in cricket by

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. From Lancing, he went up to Lincoln College, Oxford. While studying at Oxford, he made two appearances in

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for

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in 1958, against

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and

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. He also played

while at Oxford, gaining a

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. After graduation, he worked as an engineer at Shell in Shell haven, Essex. Next, he attended University College, London and received a diploma in Chemical Engineering. Simultaneously, he worked for Air Products in London from 1962 to 1966. In that year, he emigrated to the United States, where he worked for Bechtel Associates as a project Engineer in New York . In 1969-1971, he attended the Harvard Business School, and received an MBA. Leaving Harvard, he joined McKinsey and Company.His McKinsey career included working for 26 years in the New York, Toronto, Dallas and Amsterdam offices. He became a US citizen in 1974. He retired from McKinsey as a Director and head of the international logistics practice. 2 years prior to retiring, he was invited to become a full Professor in International Logistics at the Technical University of Eindhoven in the Netherlands. He retired there in 2003 at age 65. Subsequently, he and his wife Gay moved to New Mexico. Both in the UK and US, he played squash competitively. Alongside his squash partner

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, he was ranked number one in squash doubles in the United States in the over–75 division in 2016.

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* 1938 births Living people Sportspeople from St Pancras, London People educated at Lancing College Alumni of Lincoln College, Oxford English cricketers Oxford University cricketers English male squash players English emigrants to the United States Academic staff of the Eindhoven University of Technology Harvard Business School alumni {{england-cricket-bio-1930s-stub