Career
His previous chairmanships include British Plaster Board, Wm Morrison Supermarkets, Trinity Mirror, the owner of the Daily Mirror and other regional publications, and Deputy Chairman of ASDA PLC Gibson has also held Non-Executive Directorships at Greggs PLC, GKN PLC, ASDA PLC And Northern Rock PLC
Gibson initial career was in the car industry, spending 15 years at Ford Motor Company working in industrial relations and manufacturing management as General Operations Manager and in the United Kingdom, Germany and Spain. and then 18 years with Nissan Motor Company Limited where he was Chief Executive in the United Kingdom and Europe and was on the Japanese Main Board.
Gibson was a made a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1990, and knighted in 1999.
