Board of Directors

Claudia Arney

Chair

Experience

Claudia Arney began her executive career at McKinsey & Company, before holding roles at Pearson, the Financial Times, Goldman Sachs, and HM Treasury. She was CEO of Thestreet.co.uk, and Group Managing Director at EMAP.

Claudia’s previous non-executive director experience includes Chair of the Remuneration Committee at Halfords plc, Senior Independent Director of Telecity Group plc, Governance Committee Chair at Aviva plc, Non-Executive Director at Ocado Group plc and Non-Executive Director and Interim Chair of the Premier League.

Other appointments

• Derwent London plc – Non‑Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee
• Kingfisher plc – Non-Executive Director and Chair of the Remuneration Committee
• Panel on Takeovers and Mergers – Member
• Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport (DCMS) - Lead Non-Executive Board Member

Will Shu

Founder & Chief Executive Officer

Experience

Will Shu founded Deliveroo in February 2013, alongside his childhood friend Greg Orlowski. The two paired technology with the nation’s best-loved restaurants to bring great-tasting food straight to people’s front doors. While running the London-based company takes up most of his time, Will still enjoys regularly delivering food orders on his bike.

Prior to Deliveroo, Will worked in a number of finance roles in New York and London.

Other appointments

None

Scilla Grimble

Chief Financial Officer

Experience

Before joining Deliveroo, Scilla was the Chief Financial Officer of Moneysupermarket Group plc. She was previously Interim Chief Financial Officer at Marks & Spencer where she was also Director, Group Finance, and she has held a range of senior finance and leadership roles at Tesco. Scilla spent 10 years at UBS where she was Managing Director and Head, Consumer & Retail Investment Banking EMEA, and she began her career at PwC where she qualified as a chartered accountant. Scilla is currently a Non-Executive Director at Taylor Wimpey plc.

Other appointments

Taylor Wimpey - Non Executive Director and Member of the Audit Committee and the Nomination and Governance Committee 

Peter Jackson

Independent Non-Executive Director

Experience

Peter Jackson has extensive experience in leading global digital consumer businesses. He is currently the Chief Executive Officer of Flutter Entertainment plc having been appointed in 2018 following five years of experience as a Non‑Executive Director of Betfair and then Paddy
Power Betfair.

Peter was Chief Executive Officer of Worldpay UK (an operating division of Worldpay Group plc) and Head of Global Innovation at Banco Santander, as well as a director of Santander UK Group Holdings plc. Peter’s previous experience also includes Chief Executive Officer of Travelex and senior positions at Lloyds Banking Group.

Other appointments

• Flutter Entertainment plc – Chief Executive Officer

Dame Karen Jones DBE

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

Experience

Karen Jones brings a wealth of experience in the restaurant, food and hospitality sectors, including founding Café Rouge and creating and leading the formation of the Spirit Group. Karen also has strong experience in executive remuneration having previously chaired the Remuneration Committees of ASOS plc and Booker plc.

Other appointments

• Whitebread PLC - Non-Executive Director and Member of the Remuneration and Nomination Committees 
• Hawksmoor - Chair
• Mowgli - Non-Executive Director
• Crown Estate – Non‑Executive Director and Senior Independent Director

Rick Medlock

Independent Non-Executive Director

Experience

Rick Medlock has had a highly successful career as a CFO in the technology industry, working for a range of international FTSE 100 and Nasdaq listed businesses during periods of high growth. He has held a number of CFO positions throughout his career, including at NDS group plc, Inmarsat plc and Worldpay Group plc. He was also previously Chair of BluJay Solutions. Rick brings a wealth of experience as a former Non-Executive Director and Audit Committee Chair of several technology-driven businesses, such as Sophos group plc, Edwards Vacuum, and Thus plc.

Rick was also previously the Chair of Momondo Group and Chair of the Audit Committee for LoveFilm UK Limited.

Other appointments

• Smith & Nephew plc – Non‑Executive Director
• Datatec Ltd – Non-Executive Director and Member of the Audit, Risk and Compliance Committee
• Alaska Topco Limited (t/a Nomentia) – Chair
• British Engineering Services Ltd - Chair

Dominique Reiniche

Independent Non-Executive Director, Designated Employee NED

Experience

Dominique Reiniche has a wealth of operational experience in Europe and also international consumer marketing and innovation experience. Dominique started her career with Procter & Gamble AG before moving to Kraft Jacobs Suchard AG (now Mondelez) as Director of Marketing and Strategy where she was also a member of the Executive Committee.

Dominique previously held a number of senior roles at Coca-Cola Enterprises and at Coca-Cola Company, including President – Western Europe, President – Europe, and Chair – Europe. Dominique was a Non-Executive Director of Peugeot-Citroen SA until December 2015, of AXA SA until April 2017 and of Severn Trent Plc until July 2021.

Other appointments

• PayPal Europe – Non‑Executive Director
• Mondi plc – Non-Executive Director.

Shobie Ramakrishnan

Independent Non-Executive Director

Experience

Shobie has over 20 years of experience driving business success through smart use of data and technology.  She currently leads the technology agenda at GSK in her role as Chief Digital and Technology Officer helping GSK use technology as a differentiator to discover transformational medicines, deliver growth and positive health outcomes for patients. Before joining GSK, Shobie held senior technology leadership roles in organisations including AstraZeneca, Salesforce, Genentech and Roche.

Other appointments

• GSK plc - Chief Digital and Technology Officer

Tom Stafford

Non-Executive Director

Experience

Tom Stafford is co-founder and managing partner of DST Global, the internet investment firm. The firm’s past and current portfolio includes Facebook, Alibaba, JD.com, Meituan, Airbnb, Nubank, Klarna, Robinhood, Doordash, Checkout.com, Spotify and Farfetch.

Other appointments

• DST global – Managing partner