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Stuart Price - CPO, Zenith Vehicles

Stuart is an experienced Executive Director with extensive organisational, commercial and leadership experience. He started his career in food retail, spending over 18 years working across blue chip brands including Asda, Morrisons and CostCutter Supermarkets Group. In 2016, Stuart moved to be People & Service Director for Virgin Care. After two years, he was promoted to the role of Chief Operating Officer and led a team of Managing Directors and Clinicians across all the clinical services. After various interim CEO and COO roles, Stuart returned to his passion as Chief People Officer of Zenith Vehicles, the UK’s largest independent vehicle leasing and fleet management company managing over 170,000 vehicles. After a period of material growth and diversification, Stuart, alongside his Executive colleagues is delivering a company wide transformation programme encompassing business design, culture evolution, system re-platforming, and leadership development - touching every part of the Group.

Stuart graduated in Psychology at the University of Southampton and latterly undertook a Post Graduate Degree in Business and Executive Coaching with Psychology and Neuroscience at Leeds Beckett University. Stuart is also a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD. Alongside his professional career, Stuart has chaired the governing bodies of two turnaround primary schools in the inner cities of Bradford and Leeds and has been a Trustee and Chair of the Nominations and Remuneration Committee of a Global Charity whose mission is to eradicate human trafficking and exploitation (Stop the Traffik).