Tessa Bamford - Getting your first Board

Tessa Bamford is a consultant in the Boards Practice at Spencer Stuart. She also serves as a non-executive director of two FTSE100 companies: Ferguson plc, the world’s leading distributor of heating and plumbing products to the professional market and Barratt Developments plc, one of Britain’s largest homebuilders.

Before joining Spencer Stuart, Tessa was a founding director of MerchantCantos, an online corporate communications company serving many FTSE 100, FTSE 250 and international businesses. Previously she spent 18 years as an investment banker in both the UK and US, first with BZW and then with Schroders.

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