1st April 2021
Nish Kankiwala will join the board of the John Lewis Partnership this month as a Non-Executive Director. He brings 40 years of experience in retail and consumer brands from spells at PepsiCo, Unilever and Burger King. He is currently the Chief Executive of Hovis.
Kankiwala started his career at Unilever in a number of commercial and operational roles, before moving to PepsiCo where he became President of the soft drinks business in Europe and Africa. He then moved to Burger King International as President.
He continued his career within private equity led businesses and joined Hovis in 2014, initially as Chairman and in the past five years as Chief Executive, where he led an overhaul of the brand.
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