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Laura Wade-Gery
British business executive (born 1965)
Laura Wade-Gery (born 1965)[1] is a British business executive.
Early life
Wade-Gery (daughter of the late Sir Robert Wade-Gery) was educated at Cheltenham Ladies' College[2] and Magdalen College, Oxford, where she studied history and also achieved an ice-hockey blue.[3] As a student she accompanied William Dalrymple on a journey across Asia which is described in Dalrymple's book In Xanadu.
Dalrymple has said of Wade-Gery: “Stories of her feats of endurance were common currency; if half of them were true, she had by the age of 21 made Freya Stark look like a dilettante.
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... When travelling with her I could never decide whether she reminded me more of Boadicea or Joyce Grenfell ..."[4][5]
Career
After working at Gemini Consulting and Kleinwort Benson, Wade-Gery joined Tesco in 1997 and rose to become chief executive of its online business.
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