Adam Crozier (born 26 January 1964, Falkirk) is the chief executive of the
Royal MailRoyal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom. Royal Mail Holdings plc owns Royal Mail Group Limited, which in turn operates the brands Royal Mail , Parcelforce Worldwide and General Logistics Systems...
. He took up this position in February 2003.
His father was a manager for
Lord ButeJohn Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, KBE was the son of the 5th Marquess of Bute and the former Lady Eileen Forbes ....
, and his mother was secretary to the Managing Director of
The Scotsman. He went to a school in
AyrAyr is a town and port situated on the Firth of Clyde, in south-west Scotland. With a population of around 46,000, Ayr is the largest settlement in Ayrshire, of which it is the county town, and has held royal burgh status since 1205...
then
Graeme High SchoolGraeme High School is a non-denominational public secondary school located in Falkirk, Scotland. The school is run by Falkirk Council on behalf of the Scottish Executive Education Department. The catchment area which is served by Hallglen, Laurieston, St...
a comprehensive school in
FalkirkFalkirk Falkirk Falkirk is a town in central Scotland lying to the north west and north east of the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, respectively. According to a 2007...
. Brought up on the
Isle of ButeBute, also known as the Isle of Bute is one of the islands of the lower Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Formerly part of the county of Buteshire, it now constitutes part of the council area of Argyll and Bute. Its resident population was 7,228 in April 2001.-Geography: Bute lies in the Firth of Clyde....
he graduated with a
Business Organisation BABachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
from
Heriot-Watt UniversityHeriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the eighth-oldest higher education institution in the United Kingdom originating as the School of Arts of Edinburgh in 1821. It received its university charter in 1966. The name commemorates George Heriot – the 16th century financier to King James,...
.
He had trials for
Hibernian F.C.Hibernian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Leith, in the north of Edinburgh. They are one of two Scottish Premier League clubs in the city, the other being their rivals Hearts, who Hibernian play in the Edinburgh derby...
and
Stirling Albion F.C.Stirling Albion F.C. are a football club currently playing in the Scottish Second Division. The club are nicknamed The Binos . They play at Forthbank Stadium in Stirling, on the outskirts of the city near the River Forth...
when at school.
Adam Crozier (born 26 January 1964, Falkirk) is the chief executive of the
Royal MailRoyal Mail is the national postal service of the United Kingdom. Royal Mail Holdings plc owns Royal Mail Group Limited, which in turn operates the brands Royal Mail , Parcelforce Worldwide and General Logistics Systems...
. He took up this position in February 2003.
Early life
His father was a manager for
Lord ButeJohn Crichton-Stuart, 6th Marquess of Bute, KBE was the son of the 5th Marquess of Bute and the former Lady Eileen Forbes ....
, and his mother was secretary to the Managing Director of
The Scotsman. He went to a school in
AyrAyr is a town and port situated on the Firth of Clyde, in south-west Scotland. With a population of around 46,000, Ayr is the largest settlement in Ayrshire, of which it is the county town, and has held royal burgh status since 1205...
then
Graeme High SchoolGraeme High School is a non-denominational public secondary school located in Falkirk, Scotland. The school is run by Falkirk Council on behalf of the Scottish Executive Education Department. The catchment area which is served by Hallglen, Laurieston, St...
a comprehensive school in
FalkirkFalkirk Falkirk Falkirk is a town in central Scotland lying to the north west and north east of the cities of Edinburgh and Glasgow, respectively. According to a 2007...
. Brought up on the
Isle of ButeBute, also known as the Isle of Bute is one of the islands of the lower Firth of Clyde in Scotland. Formerly part of the county of Buteshire, it now constitutes part of the council area of Argyll and Bute. Its resident population was 7,228 in April 2001.-Geography: Bute lies in the Firth of Clyde....
he graduated with a
Business Organisation BABachelor of Arts , from the Latin artium baccalaureus, is a bachelor's degree awarded for an undergraduate course or program in either the liberal arts, the sciences or both....
from
Heriot-Watt UniversityHeriot-Watt University in Edinburgh, Scotland, is the eighth-oldest higher education institution in the United Kingdom originating as the School of Arts of Edinburgh in 1821. It received its university charter in 1966. The name commemorates George Heriot – the 16th century financier to King James,...
.
Career
He had trials for
Hibernian F.C.Hibernian Football Club are a Scottish professional football club based in Leith, in the north of Edinburgh. They are one of two Scottish Premier League clubs in the city, the other being their rivals Hearts, who Hibernian play in the Edinburgh derby...
and
Stirling Albion F.C.Stirling Albion F.C. are a football club currently playing in the Scottish Second Division. The club are nicknamed The Binos . They play at Forthbank Stadium in Stirling, on the outskirts of the city near the River Forth...
when at school. He joined
Pedigree PetfoodsPedigree Petfoods is a company that manufactures pet food located at Melton Mowbray, Leicestershire, England with another factory in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire. Pedigree comes from a French phrase meaning birds feet, representing the shape of family trees. Pedigree Petfoods is also sold in...
as a graduate trainee in 1984. In 1986, he moved to the Daily Telegraph to work in sales.
He formerly worked for advertising agency Saatchi and Saatchi from 1988 becoming joint chief executive with Tamara Ingram in 1995, and was chief executive of the
Football AssociationThe Football Association, also known as simply The FA, is the governing body of association football in England and the Crown Dependencies of Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. It was formed in 1863, and is the oldest national football association...
from 2000 to 2002.
In November 2007, the
Daily TelegraphThe Daily Telegraph is a daily morning broadsheet newspaper distributed throughout the United Kingdom and internationally. The newspaper was founded by Colonel Arthur B. Sleigh in June 1855 as the Daily Telegraph and Courier...
reported that he had received a 26% pay increase in base pay, taking out £1,256,000 in 2007. His achievements in this year included shrinking the workforce by 45,000, and closing 4,600 post offices, with another 2,500 to follow. The goal of this reduction in workforce and in retail outlets was to increase profitability of the corporation (which had made a profit of £537m in 2004/5, dropping to around £300 million in 2005/6, dropping to £233 million in 2006/7, to the point where the corporation was running a £10 million/annum trading deficit in 2007).
In 2008, the BBC reported that Royal Mail's trading position had worsened dramatically to an annual loss of £279 million a year in financial 2007. Crozier's remuneration almost tripled to £3 million.
Personal life
He is married to Annette, whom he met at Saatchis, and they have two daughters (born February 1996 and July 1998).
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