Julie Brown (business person)
| Julie Brown | |
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| Born | 1962 |
| 🏳️ Nationality | British |
| 💼 Occupation | CFO, Smith & Nephew |
Julie Brown (born 1962) is the CFO of Smith & Nephew plc, a global medical technology business headquartered in the UK. Julie joined the board as Chief Financial Officer in February 2013.
Career[edit]
After graduating with first class honours from the University of Warwick in 1983, Brown joined KPMG where she trained as a Chartered Accountant. She qualified as an ACA in 1986 and also became a Fellow of the Institute of Taxation in 1987. After qualifying, Brown spent twenty-five years at Astra Zeneca plc (and its predecessor companies ICI and Zeneca). She served as Vice President Finance & Strategy, Operations and ultimately as Interim Group Chief Financial Officer (2012-2013). She undertook Commercial and Strategic roles and was Regional Vice President Latin America, Marketing Company President AstraZeneca Portugal and Vice President Corporate Strategy and R&D Chief Financial Officer.[1][2] She has led multi-billion dollar cost saving and restructuring programmes in addition to mergers and acquisitions.
Brown became CFO at Smith & Nephew in February 2013.[1][2] She laid out a capital allocation framework for the company; supported multiple M&A transactions; refinanced the company and led Group Optimisation and the Finance Transformation.[3][4]
Brown became a non-executive Director of Roche Holding Ltd in March 2016 and is Chair of the Audit Committee.[5][4]
In July 2016, it was announced that Brown will leave Smith & Nephew in January 2017 to join Burberry Group plc as Chief Operating and Chief Financial Officer.[6]
Personal life[edit]
Brown is married with two daughters. She also has a pilot's licence in hang-gliding.[2]
References[edit]
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 HealthpointCapital. "Julie Brown Appointed CFO of Smith & Nephew - HealthpointCapital". www.healthpointcapital.com. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 "Big shot: Julie Brown | The Times". The Times. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
- ↑ Chaudhuri, Saabira (2016-07-11). "Burberry's Christopher Bailey Replaced as CEO by Marco Gobbetti". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 "Smith & Nephew finance chief bags Burberry CFO role | Financial Director". Retrieved 2016-12-13.
- ↑ Morse, Andrew. "Roche nominates Smith & Nephew CFO to board". MarketWatch. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
- ↑ "Subscribe to read". www.ft.com. Retrieved 2016-12-13.
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