Sir Crispin Davis, OBE (born 1949, England), is the Chairman and Director of StarBev Netherlands BV. He was previously chairman of the board and the chief executive officer of Reed Elsevier Group PLC, and he is a non-executive director of GlaxoSmithKline PLC.[1] Sir Crispin has also served as the chief executive officer of Aegis Group PLC from 1994 until 1999. He was a board member at Guinness PLC, and the group managing director of United Distillers from 1990 to 1993. For twenty years, he served at Procter and Gamble, in senior positions in the United Kingdom, Germany, and North America.
Davis earned a bachelor's degree from Oriel College at Oxford University. He was knighted by Queen Elizabeth in 2004 for services to the information industry[2]. Davis and his wife, Anne, have three daughters.
He is the brother of former McKinsey & Company managing director Ian Davis.
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