Justine Greening appointed Non-Executive Director at On the Beach Group

Monday, March 8, 2021

Former transport secretary Justine Greening has been appointed to the board as a Non-Executive Director at On the Beach Group with immediate effect. After leaving the government in 2018, most recently, Greening founded the Social Mobility Pledge campaign to drive grass roots change through business and higher education.Three years on, over 550 companies and 75 universities have committed to strategically drive social mobility through their respective organisations’ engagement with local communities.

Greening was Member of Parliament for Putney, Roehampton & Southfields from 2005 to 2019 and spent eight years as a minister, including six in cabinet. Prior to her political career, she trained and qualified as a chartered accountant with PriceWaterhouse in the U.K. and Switzerland before taking a finance role at SmithKline Beecham followed by a strategy role at the newly formed GlaxoSmithKline.

Richard Pennycook, Chair of On the Beach, talked about the appointed and shared the company is delighted that Justine has agreed to join the board of On the Beach as a Non-Executive Director. He mentioned that Greening has had both a successful business career and an illustrious political career and said that her important work upon leaving government to establish the Social Mobility Pledge has been instrumental in changing the way businesses and universities think about social mobility.

He also added that as the travel sector recovers from the pandemic, the company is expecting some fairly major reforms to the regulatory landscape. He said that Justine’s experience, in and out of Westminster, will be invaluable as On the Beach navigates the reforms and pursues opportunities to grow its market share both in the U.K. and internationally.

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