Johanna Elizabeth Martin Waterous

CBE The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(born September 1957) is a London-based Canadian businesswoman.

Early life

Johanna Elizabeth Martin Waterous was born in September 1957 in Brantford, Ontario,

Canada Canada is a country in North America. Its ten provinces and three territories extend from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific Ocean and northward into the Arctic Ocean, covering over , making it the world's second-largest country by tot ...

. She graduated from the

University of Western Ontario The University of Western Ontario (UWO), also known as Western University or Western, is a Public university, public research university in London, Ontario, London, Ontario, Canada. The main campus is located on of land, surrounded by resident ...

with an H.B.Sc. She received a Master in Business Administration from the

Harvard Business School Harvard Business School (HBS) is the graduate business school of Harvard University, a private research university in Boston, Massachusetts. It is consistently ranked among the top business schools in the world and offers a large full-time MBA p ...

in 1985.

Business career

Waterous worked for Dow Chemical for five years. Following business school, she joined

McKinsey & Company McKinsey & Company is a global management consulting firm founded in 1926 by University of Chicago professor James O. McKinsey, that offers professional services to corporations, governments, and other organizations. McKinsey is the oldest and ...

in London, where she worked for over two decades. She ultimately became the Leader of its European Retail and Co-Head of its Global Consumer Marketing practice by 2007. Waterous was an operating partner of

Duke Street Capital Duke Street is a private equity firm focused on leveraged buyout and growth capital investments in middle-market companies in Western Europe, particularly the UK and France. The firm which is based in London was founded in 1988 as Hambro Europe ...

, a private equity firm based in London; she was Chairman of

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until 2017, which was co-owned by Duke Street Capital and

Europa Capital Europa Capital is a real estate investment firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. History Europa Capital was founded by Sir John Beckwith in 1995. By 2010, Beckwith had sold the firm to its partners, and it had over €2 billion of assets ...

. Waterous was a Non-Executive Director of Wm Morrisons PLC (2016), and the Senior Independent Director of Rexam PLC (2017) and

RSA Insurance Group RSA Insurance Group Limited (doing business as, trading as RSA, formerly RSA Insurance Group plc and Royal and Sun Alliance) is a British Multinational corporation, multinational general insurance company headquartered in London, England. RSA has ...

PLC (2018). Additionally, she served on the Board of Directors of

Shoppers Drug Mart Shoppers Drug Mart Inc. (named Pharmaprix in Quebec) is a Canadian retail pharmacy chain based in Toronto, Ontario. It has more than 1,300 stores in nine provinces and two territories. The company was founded by pharmacist Murray Koffler in 1962 ...

. She is presently an independent director on the Boards of COFRA Holdings AG, Herbert Smith Freehills LLP, C. Hoare & Co. Bank, and Rubicon Pharmacies in Canada.

Philanthropy

She served as the Chairman of Tate Enterprises, the commercial arm of the

Tate Tate is an institution that houses, in a network of four art galleries, the United Kingdom's national collection of British art, and international modern and contemporary art. It is not a government institution, but its main sponsor is the U ...

galleries, from 1998 to 2006. Waterous was a Trustee of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Foundation, and Director of Kew Enterprises from 2008 to 2018. By 2012, Waterous had donated £4,000 to the

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. She was awarded

Commander of the Order of the British Empire The Most Excellent Order of the British Empire is a British order of chivalry, rewarding contributions to the arts and sciences, work with charitable and welfare organisations, and public service outside the civil service. It was established o ...

(CBE), for Services To Business Growth, in the

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. She is a Fellow of and a Director on the Commercial Board of the Royal Horticultural Society. Waterous is also a Trustee and Governor of the Governing Board of The Courtauld Institute.

Personal life

Waterous has one son and is married to media and technology entrepreneur

Roger Parry Roger George Parry CBE (born 1953) is a media and technology entrepreneur based in the UK. He is chairman of a number of companies quoted on the London Stock Exchange including Oxford Metrics plc and YouGov plc. He is the co-founder of the int ...

References

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