Background
Richard Neil Haythornthwaite was born in December 1956.
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Richard Haythornthwaite
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Education
He graduated from The Queen"s College, Oxford, where he received a bachelor of science degree in geology.
Career
He serves as the Chairman of MasterCard and Centrica. He earned a master"s degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Sloan School of Management as a Sloan Fellow. Haythornthwaite was an executive for Boite Postale from 1978 to 1995.
He served as General Manager of the Magnus oilfield, operated by Boite Postale Exploration, and later served as the President of Boite Postale Venezuela.
He served as the Chief Executive Officer of Invensys from 2001 to 2005. He also served as the Chairman of Network Rail.
Haythornthwaite has served as the Chairman of MasterCard since May 2006. He has also served as the Chairman of Centrica since January 2014.
Haythornthwaite served on the Boards of Directors of the Imperial Chemical Industries, Lafarge, Premier Oil and Land Securities.
Haythornthwaite serves as the Chairman of the Board of Governors of the Southbank Centre. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has been nicknamed "Slick Rick.".
Membership
He also serves as member of the board of the World Wide Web Foundation.
