MEET OUR LEADERSHIP TEAM

Peter Macnab, CEO

It was 1972 when Peter started his career at a supermarket chain carrying shopping bags out to customers’ cars. With decades of retail experience behind him, Peter manages our overall operations, structure, strategy, and agendas.

His passion for our stores and bringing products, services and deals that deliver the best in everyday accessible beauty and health to customers is legendary. He’s also driven by a mission to bring Superdrug’s stores together with the online world.

“I still spend much of my time travelling the country, going into our stores and walking the shop floors – it is by speaking to customers that we’re able to react, evolve and succeed.”

Simon Comins, Chief Commercial Officer

Joining our business at just 15-years old, Simon started out working at his local Superdrug store. 35 years later, and he’s worked across all areas of the business in various roles before becoming our Chief Commercial Officer.

Overseeing our commercial teams and heading our marketing and Customer Relationship Management (CRM) teams, Simon helps to ensure our brand messages are clear and consistent and is responsible for making sure the shelves in more than 800 Superdrug stores are home to the best selection of beauty and health products on the high street.

“At Superdrug the customer is always at the heart of what we do. We pride ourselves on offering the latest beauty brands, everyday personal care, and essential health products at a range of price points to allow shoppers choice, depending on their individual wants and needs and are always looking for ways to deliver the most benefits for the price.”

Megan Potter, Trading Director

With a passion for discovering new trends, building brands, and securing exclusives for our customers, Megan first joined our business 14 years ago as a Senior Buyer. She later worked as Head of Buying for several categories and led our cosmetics and fragrance teams before progressing to Trading Director with responsibility for our Personal Care, Cosmetics, Fragrance, Hair, and Skincare categories.

“I have built my career on a passion for developing new trends, building brands, and securing exclusives for our customers. I believe we’re in a better position than ever to make the biggest trends in health and beauty accessible to our customers while continuing to bring the value they know and love us for.”

Richard Fleming, Finance Director

Richard began his career as an Audit Supervisor at Deloitte UK before working as Trading Finance Manager for British Home Stores. He then joined Sainsbury’s where he worked in various senior positions including Director of Group Finance and Logistics Director over a 14-year period.

Richard joined us as Finance Director for A.S. Watson in 2015, encompassing both the Superdrug and Saver brands. He continues to lead the way in building on our robust financial performance and meeting the most challenging of ongoing market conditions.

“Our broad strategy is relevant to our customers’ needs and is a real strength as we continue to build on our success so far. We’re in a strong financial position to invest and I’m confident in the future growth of our business.”

Amy Davies, People Director

Amy joined Superdrug 13 years ago, having started out as an Employee Relations Manager for Jaguar and Land Rover. Today, Amy is our People Director and is focused on attracting, nurturing, and retaining talent by creating and investing in an environment that gets the best out of our people.

Amy leads our continued focus on diversity and inclusion within Superdrug, as well as our employee wellbeing agenda, her vision is to build on the success we’ve already achieved following our recognition on the Social Mobility Employer Index in 2020.

“Having been listed as a leader in diversity since 2019, our people make us the business we are, and I’m looking forward to continuing the work that we have already taken in supporting our colleagues by focusing on the wellbeing of teams, building our CSR strategies and honing our talent for the future.”

Matt Walburn, Marketing, eCommerce, Digital and Customer Director

With a strong marketing background and a great deal of experience in retail, Matt began his career in marketing at Sainsbury’s before moving onto roles at Homebase and Dixons Carphone.

Today, he continues to focus on bringing a best-in-class O+O experience to our customers, whether in-store, through eCommerce or as part of our customer relationship management (CRM) strategy. Matt is responsible for driving our omnichannel as well as Marketplace strategy.

“Marketplace is a vital step for our business as we look to strengthen further our role in health and beauty retail and start to build into new associated categories.”

Jamie Archer, Own Brand Director

Jamie started his career with Boots as part of a graduate programme. He later spent eight years at two of the UK’s largest FMCG businesses, L’Oreal and Unilever, before joining us four years ago.

Jamie has a passion for our own brand ranges and is committed to driving innovation in our accessibility, value, and brand-building strategies, putting performance and purpose at the heart of own brand to take the Superdrug brand to the next level.

“We’re proud of our record of creating and building our own innovative brands into household names, and I’m excited at the focus on driving this even more at the top level of our business.”

Ghada Beal, Healthcare Director

Ghada has 28 years’ experience in retail and pharmacy and has worked for some of the biggest retail pharmacies in the UK. Ghada began her career at Walgreens Boots Alliance and spent 26 years with the company in different roles, spending the last four years as vice president, director of stores. Most recently she held the position of retail and pharmacy services director at Lloydspharmacy, which she joined in 2021.

Ghada has a strong track record of strategic and operational leadership in healthcare, beauty and retail markets and was previously appointed Board member of the Pharmaceutical Services Negotiating Committee (PSNC).

“From launching health checks in our health clinics to growing our best-in-class Online Doctor and eNHS services – we remain determined and committed to making healthcare accessible and affordable to as many of our colleagues, customers, and communities as we possibly can.”

Nigel Duxbury, Property Director

Nigel was Property Director at the greetings card retailer, Birthdays, for 14 years before joining Superdrug. Since 2004, he has looked after and developed the retail portfolio across A.S. Watson UK (Superdrug, Savers, and The Perfume Shop).

Nigel oversees a team of more than 100 people and an estate of over 18,000 properties. Responsible for acquisitions, health & safety, facilities lease renewals and all tenant/landlord relationships and issues management. Nigel is also leading our new store opening strategy with a focus on retail parks.

“Over the last ten years we have reduced our carbon footprint by an amazing 82% through several initiatives, but we know there is still a lot to do. Our strategic focus on corporate social responsibility, ‘Doing Good Feels Super’ has enabled us to create solutions across the entire business and I am very proud of the work we have done and are set to deliver over the next 10 years.”

Andrew Cobb, IT Director

Andrew started out as an IT Manager with Procter & Gamble where he developed his skills and progressed his career for 17 years. His wide-ranging experience in some of the world’s leading retail and FMCG companies includes shaping and delivering global, regional, and country programmes.

As a champion of business process simplification and standardisation, Andrew leads the way in driving business value through digital transformation programmes which make a real impact. This is supported through his expertise in business technology applications across research and development, marketing, supply chain, physical retail, eCommerce, and all internal business functionality.

“As a team, IT is here to deliver first class customer service to shoppers instore and online. Hard work, persistence and a positive mental attitude will help us realise this – my purpose is to help people achieve their personal and professional goals while having fun and learning too.”

Jerry Walkling, Sales Operations Director

Jerry began his career in retail more than 40 years ago as a management trainee at Marks & Spencer. He joined Superdrug in 1995 as an Area Manager and gained a post graduate diploma in International Strategic Retailing with Oxford University just two years later.

As one of our Regional General Managers for several years, Jerry understands the opportunities and challenges our store teams face. In 2012, he became our Supply Chain and Logistics Director before becoming Sales Operations Director the following year.

“My priority is to inspire and give support to our 11,000 colleagues in stores so they can delight the 2.5 million customers who shop with us every week.”

Chris Warn, Supply Chain Director

Joining the Board in 2022, Chris brings diverse experience to our leadership team. He began his career with an international logistics provider as a graduate trainee before progressing to roles including Commercial Manager.

Chris continued to develop his skills with Agility, a leading provider of supply chain services. He also worked as an Operations Manager for Sainsbury’s and later managed the end-to-end international supply chain for Homebase and Habitat. More recently, he was Global Logistics Director for Pentland.

“At Superdrug, our forward-thinking and collaborative teams provide innovative and efficient supply chain solutions to ensure that our customers and patients across the UK have access to the right products, at the right time either via our stores, pharmacies, health clinics or our online services”