John Peace, initially
an independent non-executive director at Standard Chartered Bank, was appointed
chairman of the board in July 2009. In 1980, Peace co-founded CCN, a trading
company formed by GUS that marketed information services to retailers and other
lending organisations. CCN went on to become one of Europe's largest
information services businesses and, following the acquisition of other major
information services in the US and Europe, it became Experian and Peace became its
chief executive. Peace was appointed to the Board of GUS in 1997 and became
their group chief executive in January 2000. In 2002 Peace was appointed chairman
of Burberry.