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Jack Keenan
Jack Keenan has been global CEO of the largest international wine and spirits company and CEO of Kraft Foods International. He serves on UK boards and is CEO of his investment vehicle Grand Cru Consulting. He is Patron of the Centre for International Business and Management founded at Cambridge. Jack has a keen interest in corporate governance and his publication: “Corporate Governance in UK/USA boardrooms” Corporate Governance International Review 12,172-6 Broke readership records.
Subjects: Business, Management and Accounting
Biography
John (Jack) KeenanCEO Grand Cru Consulting
Jack is the founder and CEO of Grand Cru Consulting Ltd. He has been CEO of the business now known as Diageo PLC and Chairman and CEO of Kraft Foods International.
He is currently a non-executive director of Revolymer PLC (AIM).
Jack has served as an executive director of Diageo and Moet Hennessy and as a non-executive on the boards of Marks & Spencer PLC, Tomkins PLC, The Body Shop International PLC and General Mills Inc.
Jack has been patron of the Centre for International Business and Management for 14 years and an executive director for the prior 6 years. The Centre is a subsidiary of the Harry Hansen Charitable Trust of which Jack is Chairman.
He is a resident of the United Kingdom.
Education
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Tufts Uni (Phi Beta Kappa with honours)and a Harvard MBA
Personal Interests
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Theatre, Music, Vegetable Gardening, Cricket & Rugby