He retired in 2008 from his post as non-executive chairman of Cadbury Schweppes and was previously the company's Chief Executive from 1996 to 2003.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and was knighted in the Queen's Birthday Honours 2006, for services to business [1].
He was appointed Chancellor of Aston University, Birmingham, in 2010, and serves as a Non-Executive Director on the Barclays board.
He is a Director of the Financial Reporting Council, an Adviser to CVC Capital Partners, an Association Member of BUPA and a Governor of Reading University.
In a short anecdote, he reminded pupils that his headmaster had, in a school report, called him "a distinctly average boy".