Peter Foy is a former Managing Director of McKinsey & Co UK, the international management consultancy firm, where he spent twenty-five years of his career. He was a member of McKinsey's worldwide Board and spent ten years as head of the firm’s European Consumer Goods practice. Previously, he held a number of marketing positions with Gillette, L'Oreal and Colgate-Palmolive. After leaving McKinsey in 1995 Peter became Chairman of Baring Brothers International which had been acquired as the corporate finance arm of ING's Investment Bank, a position he held until 1999. More recently he has held the following posts: Deputy Chairman of P&O Princess Cruises plc, Chairman of Whitehead Mann plc, and a Director of PepsiCo Inc., Omnicom Inc., and Safeway plc. In addition to these roles Peter has served as Deputy Chairman of the Royal Ballet School and maintains a close connection with Oxford University as a Fellow of St Peter's and St Anne's Colleges, a Faculty Board Member of the Business School and a Trustee of the Higher Studies Fund.