Lord Waheed Alli
Chairman
At present Chairman of Chorion Ltd, an intellectual property rights owning company, and non-executive director of Olga Productions Ltd.
Formerly Managing Director at Carlton Television responsible for the production of all its programmes, and previously he was the Managing Director of Planet 24, one of the largest independent production companies in the UK, which he founded with Charlie Parsons and Bob Geldof.
He was appointed a working Labour peer in July 1998. He is active in the House of Lords where he takes a particular interest in issues concerning equality.
Waheed is also a trustee of the Elton John Aids Foundation, Vice-President of UNICEF, Chancellor of De Montfort University, President of the National Youth Theatre and a patron of a number of other voluntary organisations. Waheed is a member of the Audit and Remuneration committees.
Nick Robertson
Chief Executive
Nick started his career in 1987 with the advertising agency Young and Rubicam and in 1991 moved to Carat, the UK’s largest media planning and buying agency.
In 1995 he co-founded Entertainment Marketing, a marketing services business, and in 2000 he co-founded ASOS.com
Nick Beighton
Finance Director and Company Secretary
Nick qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in Nottingham. After qualification Nick worked out of the Manchester office in transaction services and within the Strategic Business Management Group.
Nick moved to Matalan in 1999 to work as Head of Finance. He was then Business Change and IT Director before joining Matalan’s retail board in 2003.
Nick was appointed to the Luminar board as Finance Director in August 2005. His appointment as Finance Director at ASOS.com came in April 2009
Peter Williams
Non-executive Director
Peter is currently a non-executive director of ASOS plc, the online fashion retailer, Cineworld Group plc, one of the UK’s leading cinema chains, and is a member of the Design Council.
From December 2008 to May 2009 he was the executive director at JJB Sports plc responsible for the turnaround strategy. During that period he redefined the retail proposition, renegotiated the banking facilities, closed 2 loss making subsidiaries, disposed of the leisure division, restructured the plc board and implemented a Company Voluntary Agreement (CVA) – a first for a UK listed company.
For 13 years up to 2004, Peter worked for Selfridges, initially as Chief Financial Officer and then as Chief Executive, during its radical transformation from “Grace Brothers” to one of the world’s leading department stores. Following Selfridges, he was the Chief Executive of Alpha Airports Group plc, an international company specialising in tax and duty free retailing and airline catering.
After qualifying as a Chartered Accountant with Arthur Andersen, Peter has held executive positions with Accenture, Aiwa (a division of Sony), Bandive Limited and Freemans plc. His previous non-executive positions have been with Capital Radio Group plc and GCap Media plc.
Jon Kamaluddin
International Director
Jon Kamaluddin began his career in Corporate Recovery at Arthur Andersen, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
Jon then joined Marks & Spencer, where he spent 3 years in a number of finance positions including Head of Finance for the per una brand.
Jon joined ASOS in 2004 as Finance Director, in April 2009 he was appointed International Director in order to develop and implement a suitable international strategy for the business.
Robert Bready
Product and Trading Director
Robert Bready began his career at River Island where he held a variety of merchandising roles across womenswear and menswear.
After five years, Robert moved to The Arcadia Group, where he spent eight years working across young fashion retailers Miss Selfridge and TopMan, eventually becoming a senior executive for the Miss Selfridge brand.
In 2005 Robert joined ASOS.com and was quickly promoted from Head of Merchandising to Product and Trading Director.