Gary Reader

Non Executive Director and Business Advisor

Gary is an international leader, board member and business advisor focussing on financial services, insurance and professional services. Since retiring from KPMG in September 2022 he has focussed on building a portfolio leveraging his senior global leadership experience, knowledge of financial services and love of ESG and technology start ups.

Prior to this, he spent 37 years at KPMG – 26 of them as a partner – in a variety of roles. For the last five years he was the Global Head of Clients and Markets which put him at the heart of global decision making as a member of the firm’s Global Management Team. He was responsible for developing and executing growth strategies across the firm’s top 200 clients and all industry sectors. In this role he was also responsible for global marketing and led an exercise to reposition KPMG’s brand – he also helped develop and launch KPMG’s ESG strategy. Most of his career in KPMG was spent in Financial Services – and in particular insurance where he was global head of the sector for four years delivering 18% revenue growth over two years.