Gerald Corbett

Gerald Michael Nolan Corbett (born 7 September 1951) is a retired businessman who was the chairman of the Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) between 2015-2021.

After this, he attended London and Harvard business schools before joining Boston Consulting Group, which advises on corporate strategy, in the mid-70s.

Corbett, as chief executive of Railtrack, had a year before the crash stated that Paddington was the "best protected" station in the UK; prompting Lord Cullen - head of the public enquiry into the crash - to comment that Corbett's statement was "not only ill-considered, but ... demonstrated either a degree of complacency on the part of senior management or a desire to encourage undeserved confidence in what Railtrack had actually achieved".

[3] A year after the Paddington crash, in October 2000, a train from London to Leeds derailed at Hatfield, resulting in four deaths.

[5] Corbett faced charges under the health and safety at work act over the Hatfield rail disaster but, in 2004, a high court judge dismissed them because of lack of evidence.

[7] These dramatisations showed the private tension beneath the public face and noted that Corbett had his own share of personal tragedy.

[citation needed] Between 2004 and 2010, he was a non-executive director of Greencore Group plc, the Irish food company headquartered in Dublin.

In 2010 he negotiated the sale of SSL to Reckitt Benckiser for £2.5 billion, a gain of 400% on the share price 5 years previously.

[citation needed] On the 26 September 2017 the club voted 90.5 per cent in favour of a new masterplan to develop the Lord's, their cricket ground.