Karen Whitworth

Experience: Karen qualified as a chartered accountant at Coopers and Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) and has 17 years experience operating at board level in a variety of roles in commercial, operations and governance in several private and FTSE 100 organisations. Most recently Karen spent 10 years at J Sainsbury plc, latterly as a member of the commercial board and director of Non-Food Grocery and New Business. Some of Karen's earlier career was spent at online entertainment business BGS Holdings Limited. She also held a number of senior roles at Intercontinental Hotels Group Plc between 2000 and 2005. Until 2018, she was a supervisory board member and member of the audit committee at GS1 UK Limited.