Top Influencers: 8 UK Group Chief Operating Officer's To Follow in 2022

Group Chief Operating Officer play a crucial role in any startup. It takes an extraordinary person to fulfil the Group Chief Operating Officer role. We have selected these Group Chief Operating Officer’s for this list as they are inspiring for a variety of reasons – whether that’s pushing boundaries, creating groundbreaking products, or doing their bit to save the world.

Our analysts did their best to select be best, and most innovative Group Chief Operating Officer’s. The list is in no particular order!

Andy Macguire

Group Chief Operating Officer @ HSBC

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Andy Maguire is Group Chief Operating Officer, HSBC, responsible for leading HSBC Operations, Services and Technology and the bank’s Chief Operating Officers. He joined the bank in December 2014 and was appointed to the Group Management Board in August 2015. He began his career at Lloyd’s Bank, where he worked in retail, corporate and private banking. He then worked as a consultant specialising in large transformation programmes in Europe, the Americas and Asia. He joined Boston Consulting Group in 1998. At Boston Consulting Group he was the Head of the Banking and Customer Services practices, Managing Partner of the UK and Ireland and a member of the firm’s global executive committee. From 2010-14 he led Boston Consulting Group’s relationship with HSBC. He holds a double honours degree in Computer Engineering and Mathematics from Trinity College, Dublin. Learn more about Andy Macguire on Crunchbase…

HSBC is a banking and financial services organization that offers a comprehensive range of services. Read more aboutHSBC on Crunchbase…

Tony Buffin

Group Chief Operating Officer @ Travis Perkins

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Travis Perkins plc, a FTSE 100 company, is one of the UK’s leading companies in the builders’ merchanting and home improvement market. Read more aboutTravis Perkins on Crunchbase…

Andy Randall

Group Chief Operating Officer @ Halfords

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Halfords is the retailer of motoring, cycling, and leisure products and, through Halfords Autocentres. Read more aboutHalfords on Crunchbase…

Vicky Hodgson

Group Chief Operating Officer @ Onebright

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Jens Schulte Bockum

Group Chief Operating Officer @ MTN Cote d’Ivoire

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Jens has extensive operational experience in the mobile telecoms sector, with his last senior role being as CEO of Vodafone Germany between 2012 and 2015. Jens has extensive experience in the consumer business, as well as the area of large scale transformation in a convergent operation. Learn more about Jens Schulte Bockum on Crunchbase…

Tom Greenwood

CFO & Group Chief Operating Officer @ Helios Towers Africa

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Tom Greenwood is the CFO & Group Chief Operating Officer at Helios Towers Africa. Learn more about Tom Greenwood on Crunchbase…

Helios Towers Africa has operations in Ghana, Tanzania, the Democratic Republic of Congo and a sister company in Nigeria. Read more aboutHelios Towers Africa on Crunchbase…