Laura wade gery biography samples

British business executive (born 1965)

Laura Wade-Gery (born 1965)^[1] is a British business executive.

Early life

Wade-Gery (daughter of the late Sir Robert Wade-Gery) was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College^[2] and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she studied history and also achieved an ice-hockey blue.^[3] As a student she accompanied William Dalrymple on a journey across Asia which is described in Dalrymple's book In Xanadu. Dalrymple has said of Wade-Gery: “Stories of her feats of endurance were common currency; if half of them were true, she had by the age of 21 made Freya Stark look like a dilettante. ... When travelling with her I could never decide whether she reminded me more of Boadicea or Joyce Grenfell ..."^[4][5]

Career

After working at Gemini Consulting and Kleinwort Benson, Wade-Gery joined Tesco in 1997 and rose to become chief executive of its online business. She was to h