Michael Hodgkinson

Sir Michael Stewart Hodgkinson (born 7 April 1944) is a British business man.

[3] He was educated at Hornchurch Grammar School and the University of Nottingham, graduating BA in Industrial Economics in 1965.

In 1986, he was appointed as Chief Executive of Grand Metropolitan’s European Food Division and in 1992 as Group Airports Director at BAA plc.

[6] In 2007, as chairman of First Choice, Hodgkinson took it into a merger with the German company TUI, which controlled Thomson Holidays.

[10] Until 2013, when he was replaced by Daniel Moylan, Hodgkinson was the Transport for London nominee as a non-executive director of Crossrail.