Barry John Dodd CBE (2 October 1947 – 30 May 2018[1][2]) was an entrepreneur who ran a graphics company, GSM Group.
Dodd was born in Salford, but raised in Canada and in Chicago where his mother worked as a court reporter and then in real estate.
[1] Dodd worked as a graduate trainee at the petrochemicals firm ICI where he took on management roles in Teesside, London and New York.
[3] Dodd died on 30 May 2018, aged 70, when the Bell 206B helicopter he was piloting crashed into a field at Aldborough near to Boroughbridge in North Yorkshire.
[8] An Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) inquiry concluded that the helicopter had crashed in bad weather, probably due to the pilot becoming disorientated in the cloud.