Background
She was born on 12 December 1961 in Cheltenham, England to Dermot Green and Nerys Allen. She grew up in Shipton, Gloucestershire, east of Cheltenham, in the Cotswolds.
She was born on 12 December 1961 in Cheltenham, England to Dermot Green and Nerys Allen. She grew up in Shipton, Gloucestershire, east of Cheltenham, in the Cotswolds.
She was educated at Westwood"s Grammar School in Northleach. She studied Medieval History at King"s College London, graduating Bachelor of Arts (Bachelor Honours) in 1983. She then attended the London School of Economics where she studied Business Psychology and graduated in 1985.
Green spent her early career in the electronic components industry, working in Europe, the United States and Asia. She was Managing Director of Macro Group, and then appointed President of the Asia/Pacific sector of Arrow Electronics from 2002 to 2006. She was Chief Executive Officer of Premier Farnell, a global electronics distribution business, from 2006 until 2012.
She became Chief Executive of Thomas Cook Group on 30 July 2012, succeeding Manny Fontenla-Novoa who was Chief Executive Officer from 2003.
She obtained this position by cold calling chairman Frank Meysman. On 26 November 2014, it was announced that Green was leaving with immediate effect, and that Peter Fankhauser, the chief operating officer would take over as Chief Executive Officer. Despite the deaths of Christianne and Robert Shepherd occurring in 2006 before she was appointed, Green announced in June 2015 that she was donating a third of her £5.7m Thomas Cook bonus, £1.9m, to a charity chosen by the parents of two children who died while on holiday.
The Group was highly criticised by the coroner in the 2015 inquest - which ruled the pair were unlawfully killed from carbon monoxide poisoning in Corfu in 2006 - for its treatment of the family, which included the period of Green"s tenure. International Business Machines Corporation appointed Green as the head of the International Business Machines Corporation Watson Internet of Things business unit on 15 December 2015.