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Roy Brown (businessman)

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Roy Drysdale Brown FIMechE FIET (born 4 December 1946) is a British engineer and business executive, who was the chairman of the international engineering conglomerate GKN from 2004 until 2012.

He attended the independent Tonbridge School. On a GEC scholarship he went to University College London, where he gained a BSc in Mechanical Engineering.[1]

He worked for Unilever from 1974 to 2001, and later became chairman of the Scottish telecommunications company Thus plc.

Brown joined GKN as a non-executive director in 1996 and became the company's chairman in May 2004.[2] He was replaced by Michael Turner in May 2012.[3]

He married Carol Wallace in 1978 and they have two sons. He became a Fellow of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers in 1983, and a Fellow of the IEE (which became the Institution of Engineering & Technology) in 1990.

References

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  1. ^ Debrett's
  2. ^ "Brown lands chairman's seat at GKN". The Telegraph. 27 November 2003. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
  3. ^ "GKN Says Michael Turner To Succeed Roy Brown As Chairman". RTTNews. 24 November 2011. Retrieved 18 September 2021.
Business positions
Preceded by
David Lees
Chairman of GKN
2004 – 2012
Succeeded by