Rod Aldridge
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Rod Aldridge is the former Executive Chairman of Capita, a British company specialising in business process outsourcing, and currently Chairman of The Aldridge Foundation.
Aldridge founded and led the Capita Group from its formation in 1984 until 2006. During his time as chair the group expanded to a FTSE 100 company employing 27,000 as well as profits increasing each year to almost £200 million in 2006. In 1987 he led the management buyout (MBO) of the group from the Chartered Institute of Public Finance and Accountancy (CIPFA) and the flotation of Capita on the unlisted securities market (USM) in 1989 valued at £8 million.
In 2006 he resigned as chairman of Capita after it was revealed that he had lent the Labour Party £1 million[1]. The loan, which was secret at the time it was made, was controversial, in part, because Capita is a major public sector supplier.
[edit] Background
Prior to Capita, Aldridge worked in local government for 10 years with East Sussex County Council, Brighton Borough Council, Crawley District Group and West Sussex County Council, joining CIPFA in 1974 ultimately becoming its Technical Director.
He was awarded an OBE in 1994 New Years Honours List for services to the computer industry and was given the freedom of the City of London in 1996. He is on the Court of the Worshipful Company of Information Technologists.
Aldridge is a patron and former trustee of The Prince's Trust and was the Chairman of the Confederation of British Industry’s (CBI) public services strategy board at its inception in 2003 through to July 2006. He is also Chair of the charity launched in May 2006 which aims to inspire and engage over 1 million new youth volunteers. In January 2007 he was appointed Chairman of The Lowry, a theatre and arts venue in Salford and was appointed a Non Executive Director on the Ministerial Advisory Board of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office (FCO) Services, an Executive Agency of the FCO.
Aldridge was elected fellow of the Royal Society of Arts in 2006.
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