Susan Kilsby

Kilsby began her banking career at First Boston in the 1980s.^[1] She spent most of her career as an investment banker, working for Bankers Trust, Barclays de Zoete Wedd and Credit Suisse.^[4] While at Credit Suisse she is known for having advised Coca-Cola and Fortune Brands.^[1]

In 2002, she became the first woman to head a mergers and acquisitions department of any major bank, and she was co-chief executive of European M&A until 2009. She gave up a part-time advisory role at Credit Suisse when she took on the role of chairing Shire.^[5]

Kilsby has been on the board of Shire since September 2011 and the chairman since April 2014.^[6] She became a non-executive director of BBA Aviation in April 2012,^[7] Fortune Brands Home & Security in July 2015,^[8] and the first female non-executive director at Goldman Sachs International in May 2016.^[9]

In October 2019, Kilsby was appointed Senior Independent Director of Diageo plc in October 2019 after serving as a Non-Executive Director from 2018 and Chairman of the Remuneration Committee since 2019.^[10]

Kilsby met her husband, Richard Philip Kilsby when they were both managing directors at Bankers Trust. They married in 1994.^[11]