NEXT Plc.

Sir David Jones - David was diagnosed with Parkinson's disease in 1982 the year after he became the Chief Executive of Grattan Plc (a home shopping business with market capitalisation of 25m). Four years later, he had steered the company to a value of 330m and a merger with NEXT Plc. But this was only the start of his success. David became Chief Executive of NEXT Plc in 1988 and under his stewardship NEXT became the retail success story of the 1990's its market capitalisation growing from 25m in 1990 to over 3b in 2001 then he retired as CEO. It was only then that he revealed that he had Parkinson's, having previously only told family and close friends. David retired as Chairman of NEXT in May 2006. He has raised and contributed over 450,000 for Parkinson's. In 2007, David was appointed Chairman of Littlewoods Shop Direct.

Jonathan Dawson was appointed to the Board in January 2004. He is currently the Senior Independent Non-Executive Director of Next plc and a Non-Executive Director of National Australia Group Europe Limited. He is also a partner in Penfida Partners LLP. He was previously an investment banker at Lazard. Age 56.

After studying for his law degree at the University of Birmingham Nick began his career as a solicitor with Richards Butler, now Reed Smith Richards Butler, a City firm focused on corporate and commercial law. Having established himself as a commercial lawyer, Nick's next move was to join British American Tobacco's legal department. Here he quickly turned businessman, holding several senior management positions at BAT in both the US and the UK in a career that spanned 25 years with the company. Among his many roles at BAT Nick led a cross functional team that developed and implemented the successful defence of the bid for BAT Industries brought by Sir James Goldsmith. A few years later he led the repositioning of BAT's public stance on tobacco issues, enabling BAT to embrace corporate social responsibility. During his time with the company in the US he also led the defence of the Group in complex US litigation and represented the company at US House and Senate Congressional hearings. Retiring from the board at BAT in 2003 Nick retained a relationship with the company chairing their investment in a Formula One team, he then subsequently managed the sale of that team to Honda. Currently Nick is a non-executive director of business law firm Bond Pearce and retailer Next plc. He is also both an Independent Member of Council of Roehampton University in London and a member of the Coalition for Learning Disabilities Advisory Board.