Graham Beale
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Graham John Beale CBE (born 19 October 1958)[1] and former Chief executive of the Nationwide Building Society.
Beale's father was a former coal miner, who became a maintenance engineer at British Steel and his mother was a nurse. He has a brother, and grew up in Scunthorpe.
Education and training
He attended the High Ridge School in Scunthorpe, which had been Scunthorpe Grammar School two years earlier.[2]
After the John Leggott College[3][failed verification] from 1975-77, Beale went to Leicester University to read psychology. He said, "I was interested in marketing and advertising and thought psychology would take me in the right direction".
However, he began training as an accountant at Thomson McLintock, now part of KPMG. Thomson McLintock's biggest client was Leicester Building Society (which merged with Alliance in 1987 to form Alliance & Leicester and then acquired by Santander in 2010) and gave Beale an insight into mutuals. He said, "My time at Leicester was quite influential. I liked what mutuals stood for".[4]