Richard John Cousins was a British businessman, and the chief executive officer of the world's largest foodservice company, the Compass Group, based in Chertsey, Surrey.
11 Facts About Richard Cousins
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Richard Cousins was born on 29 March 1959 in Leeds.
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Richard Cousins was the son of Marian and Philip Cousins.
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Richard Cousins earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Sheffield in 1980, followed by a master's degree in operational research from Lancaster University Management School.
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Richard Cousins began in the group operational research department of Cadbury-Schweppes in 1981, being involved in market research and investment projects.
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Richard Cousins became corporate planning manager for Newey and Eyre, one of its subsidiaries and an electrical components firm.
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Richard Cousins went on to be managing director of Abertay Paper Sacks in 1996, President and CEO of Westroc Inc in February 1998 and Group chief executive of BPB in April 2000.
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Richard Cousins is succeeded as CEO of Compass by Dominic Blakemore.
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Richard Cousins married Caroline Thorpe in 1982; she died of cancer in 2015.
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The couple had previously lived at Wellington, Shropshire late in the 1980s, where Richard Cousins was a player in the Cricket Club, of which he remained for some time chairman of the club committee.
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Richard Cousins was killed on 31 December 2017 when the light aircraft he was on crashed into the Hawkesbury River in Australia near Cowan, north of Sydney.