Richard Dunnell Gillingwater CBE (born July 1956) is a British businessman and former public servant, chairman of Janus Henderson Group plc, former chairman of SSE plc, and the pro-chancellor of the Open University.
Richard Dunnell Gillingwater was born in July 1956.
[1] Gillingwater has a law degree from Oxford University, and an MBA from IMD Lausanne.
[2] In 2003, he led a team of civil servants who worked on corporate finance in the Department for Trade and Industry as they transitioned into the Shareholder Executive, created to professionalise the government’s management of its commercial shareholdings.
[3] He was chief executive of the new body until September 2006, when he became its chair.