Sir Roy Gardner makes Power 100 list

Compass Group's new chairman elect, Sir Roy Gardner, has landed the top hospitality position in the Power 100 list published by The Times.

The Power 100, which lists the most powerful figures in British business, ranks Gardner, who is currently chief executive of utility services group Centrica, at 49.

Gardner will become chairman at Compass in the new year once a replacement at Centrica is found.

He is currently earning £45,000 for his non-executive chairman's role at Compass.

The man he will replace, current Compass chairman Sir Francis Mackay, is ranked 53rd in the list.

Mackay, who joined the group in 1986, has held his £546,000-a-year job since 1999.

Previously he and was a non-executive director of Centrica from 1997 to 2001.

Ranked 73rd is David Michels, who has been chief executive of Hilton Group since 2000.

Michels, who is paid £1.865m a year, formerly held a similar position at Stakis hotels, which Hilton bought in 1999.

Other hospitality non-executive directors in the Power 100 included Enterprise Inns' Susan Murray in position 60; InterContinental Hotels' Sir David Prosser at 71 and Hilton Group's Ian Livingston ranked 89th.

Former InterContinental Hotels chairman, Sir Ian Prosser, who is now non-executive deputy chairman of BP, was 58th.

By Kerstin Kühn

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