Dr Brian McBride FRSE
Chair, Trainline
Brian McBride is Chair at Trainline PLC and Lead Non-Executive Director on the Board of the UK’s Ministry of Defence, a UK Prime Ministerial appointment. He is also a Senior Adviser with Scottish Equity Partners. He has recently stepped down as President of the CBI having led the organisation through the greatest crisis in its history.
He was CEO of Amazon.co.uk from 2006 to 2011. He held senior roles at IBM in USA and UK, VP UK and Northern Europe for Dell Computers and as Managing Director of T-Mobile (UK).
Brian was Chairman of ASOS PLC from 2012 to 2018. He has been a Non-Executive Director of Celtic Football Club PLC, SThree PLC, Computacenter PLC, AO.com, Kinnevik AB, and Abrdn PLC (was Standard Life). He was a Non-Executive Director on the Board of the BBC, a member of the Huawei Advisory Board and a Senior Adviser to Lazard’s Global Financial Advisory business.
