Leading UK business organisation, the CBI has named MITIE chief executive Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE, as the new chair of its Public Services Strategy Board, a panel which represents public services companies in CBI policy making. McGregor-Smith is to take over the role from current chair Adrian Ringrose, CEO of Interserve.
This latest appointment adds to McGregor-Smith’s ever-expanding support of the UK’s business community; from 2012-2013 she chaired the CBI’s Women’s Business Council, a one-year working group that sought to maximise women’s contribution to economic growth; in May this year, she was appointed a non-executive director on the board of the UK Government’s Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), and in October she gave MITIE’s backing to a national “Inspiring Women” campaign. Furthermore, last month MITIE, the FTSE 250 outsourced service provider was recognised for its leadership in diversity at a national business awards.
Ruby McGregor-Smith CBE joined MITIE in 2002 and was appointed as CEO in 2007. She is one of a small number of women holding the position of Chief Executive in the FTSE 100 and FTSE 250 and was the first Asian woman to be appointed to such a role within that group of companies. Since joining, she has seen MITIE grow its revenue from £0.5bn to over £2.0bn, continuing its unbroken track record of profit and revenue growth.