Francis Bird

Francis has over 30 years’ experience in HR, across manufacturing, telecoms, oil & gas engineering and construction, FMCG and logistics. Before joining CityFibre as Group HR Director at the end of 2018, he was Group HR Director with Low & Bonar PLC. Having moved from Unilever, where he was VP HR for both R&D and Foods, as well as being a member of the global HR leadership team. Francis has also held senior HR leadership roles within Motorola, Foster Wheeler and Royal Mail Group.

He has consistently deployed HR strategy and operations to successfully build and sustain diverse organisations within high growth environments.

Francis is a certified coach, NLP practitioner – and a graduate of Queen Mary, University of London.