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Biography
Betty Thayer is a businesswoman who advocates for Women in business and lectures on the role of the non-executive director, corporate governance and transition post-retirement. Thayer has been published as an expert on these topics.
Career
She has recently been appointed to the board of Homes and Rooms, an internet start-up in the vacation/holiday rental software space. Homes and Rooms launched in 2015.
She is the Director of Development for Romo Images. Romo, founded by Robert Mouzillat, is a stereoscopic image company that has an images library of over 50,000 3D images including the Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, Pablo Picasso and many other subjects.
She serves on the UK Council of the American Museum in Britain. She is a Director of the American Friends of the Piccola Accademia di Montisi in Italy. She has lectured on Non-Executive Director roles and responsibilities as a visiting lecturer at the Cranfield School of Management.
Previous appointments include as a Non-Executive Director of the Appointments Commission, a UK Non-Departmental Government body which oversaw the appointments to National Health Service boards and other Government Departments. She served on the Remuneration and Finance Committees. She was a Non-Executive on the board of Boyden UK. Formerly Chair of the Remuneration Committee of Think London, Thayer has served on the boards of the Church Urban Fund,the Bath Mozartfest Bath, Somerset and on the Advisory Board for the University of Bath School of Management. She was CEO of Exec-Appointments LTD, a subsidiary of The Financial Times, part of Pearson plc, and the non-executive director of businesses in the online executive and board recruitment sector. Previously, she was a member of the management board at Lex Service PLC (now RAC plc) from 1995 to 1997. In her career at Ernst & Young and Andersen Consulting, she specialised in lean manufacturing.
In recent years, her views upon non-executive directorship have been drawn upon by a range of media outlets, including The Daily Telegraph (UK) and the BBC and BBC Radio 4's Today Programme.
A dual US and UK citizen, Thayer has an MBA from Vanderbilt University and is a Freeman of the City of London, a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of World Traders, and a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Management Consultants. Thayer served as a panelist at the 5th Annual Women in Business Conference, held at London Business School and was a judge at the Institute of Company Secretary’s (ICSA) Secretary of the Year Awards in October 2007.,
Publications
- Portfolio Working - Plural Careers Prove to Be a Singular Success. A survey by exec-appointments.com and IDDAS.
- 50 Under 50 - Views from Chairs of the Future. with Ernst & Young UK, 2006
- Why Does the Strategic Agenda Remain Elusive?. with Ernst & Young UK, 2007