John Browett
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| Born | (1963-12-10) 10 December 1963 (age 60)[1]
Rutland, England
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| Alma mater | University of Cambridge University of Pennsylvania |
John Browett (born 10 December 1963) is a British businessman and former chief executiveofDunelm Group and Monsoon Accessorize.[2] He was the senior vice-president of retail at Apple Inc. from April 2012 to October 2012.
Browett was born in Rutland in 1963.[3] He attended Uppingham Community College, a comprehensive school in Uppingham, then Rutland Sixth Form CollegeinOakham.[1] He studied ZoologyatMagdalene College, Cambridge, worked briefly for Kleinwort Benson, and then did an MBA at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in the United States.[3]
From 1993 to 1998, Browett worked for the Boston Consulting Group, and then moved to Tesco, where from 1999 to 2004 he was chief executive of Tesco.com.[4] In October 2007, Browett was hired as a non-executive director of the EasyJet board.[5] In December 2007, he was appointed group chief executive of electronics retailer Dixons, where he helped to improve the company's poor reputation for customer service, serving until February 2012.[4][6]
In April 2012, Browett took over from Ron Johnson as senior vice-president of retail at AppleinCupertino, California.[7] In October, Apple announced that Browett was leaving the company, and that a new head of retail was being sought. In May 2019, Bloomberg attributed his departure to his "morale-damaging" efforts following employee firings, cut hours, fewer promotions and a reduction in overtime for staff operating within Apple Stores that led to Tim Cook firing him.[8][9]
In March 2013, Browett was appointed chief executive of Monsoon Accessorize. In his first year in charge the company returned to profitability, with pre-tax profits of £18.1 million in the financial year to 31 August 2013, compared to a pre-tax loss of £2.4 million in the previous year.[10][11]
He left Monsoon in February 2015, and became chief executive designate of the Dunelm Group from July of that year, expected to take over the position from January 2016.[2] In July 2015, he joined Octopus Group board as a non-executive director.[12]
By the end of August 2017, Browett had left Dunelm where he was seen, as with Apple, as a bad fit for the culture of the company.[13] Since 2018, he has been at BillSave UK.[14]
In 2023, he was appointed as a new Chairman of the UK fibre network operator Vorboss, also entering the board of Fern Trading Group.[15][16]
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