Alex Baldock

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Alex Baldock is the CEO of online retailer Shop Direct.

Career

Early in his career Baldock worked for management company Bain & Company, Kalchas (Ernst & Young's strategy consulting arm) and Prophet (Dentsu's brand and marketing consultancy).[1]

He then moved to Barclays, before being appointed managing director at Lombard, a financial assets company owned by the RBS Group in 2008.

In 2012 he was appointed chief executive of multi-brand online retailer Shop Direct.[2]

Support for the Conservatives

On the 1 April 2015 Baldock was one of the 103 business leaders who wrote to the telegraph praising the Conservative's economic policies and claiming a Labour government would 'threaten jobs and deter investment' in the UK.[3]

Education

Notes

  1. Retail Symposium Alex Baldock, accessed 1 April 2015.
  2. 2.0 2.1 Retail Week Alex Baldock, accessed 1 April 2015.
  3. Peter Dominiczak, 100 business chiefs: Labour threatens Britain's recovery, Telegraph, 1 April 2015.