Timothy David Dalton Philips was born on 18 February 1968 and is an Irish businessman.
16 Facts About Dalton Philips
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Dalton Philips currently serves as the CEO of Greencore since September of 2022.
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Dalton Philips was the CEO of the UK supermarket chain Morrisons from January 2010 until March 2015, when he was succeeded by David Potts.
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Dalton Philips was the chief executive of DAA, the Irish state-owned global airports and travel retail group which runs Dublin and Cork airports until September 2022.
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Dalton Philips then had 11 jobs in 14 countries, including an appointment to Jardine Matheson's Dairy Farm International.
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Dalton Philips joined Walmart in 1998, and after working in Brazil, rose to the position of Chief Operating Officer in Germany.
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Dalton Philips then joined the Weston family retail operation as CEO of upmarket Irish department store group Brown Thomas in 2007, and then becoming chief operating officer of Canadian retailer Loblaw in January 2007, under Allan Leighton.
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In January 2015, Dalton Philips was ousted as chief executive of Wm Morrison after several years of poor performance, a halving of profit and a series of strategic U-turns at what was previously one of Britain's most successful supermarket chains.
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Dalton Philips, as well as being the former chairman of Byron, and of the Ridgeon Group, is currently a senior advisor with the Boston Consulting Group, and is a director on three other boards: industrial plastic group One51 Plc.
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In October 2017, after moving back to his native Ireland from Yorkshire, Dalton Philips became chief executive of DAA, a global airports and travel retail group owned by the Irish State and headquartered at Dublin Airport.
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Dalton Philips was a member of the Irish government's high-level task force on covid-19 vaccination rollout.
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In May 2022, Dalton Philips announced he would be leaving DAA to join Greencore.
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On 1 June 2022, Dalton Philips was called to appear before the Oireachtas transport committee.
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Dalton Philips's daa, having presided over multiple days of prolonged queues, more than 1,000 passengers missing a flight in one day and providing no guarantee that such queues would not return was described by Minister of State in the Department of Finance, Sean Fleming as a "reflection of bad management, full stop".
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Dalton Philips has other business interests including a number of non-executive directorships, and is known to have a public Christian profile.
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Dalton Philips has three children and is married to Penny Nesbitt, a member of the family who previously owned Arnotts department store, and speaks Spanish, Italian and Portuguese.