• Read more about Sherry Coutu, CBE

Chair of the Remuneration Committee and Member of the Nomination & Governance Committee

Appointed 1 May 2019

Sherry is an experienced non-executive director, having held numerous senior leadership positions, including Chair, Senior Independent Director and Chief Executive Officer in the financial services, technology and education sectors.

She is Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director of Raspberry Pi Holdings plc, the world’s largest single-board computer company, and she chairs its Remuneration Committee. She is also Non-Executive Director of Phoenix Group Holdings plc, the UK's largest long-term savings and retirement business, and a member of its Remuneration Committee.  She is a Trustee of Founders4Schools, the UK’s largest transition-to-work charity.

Sherry’s previous directorships include the London Stock Exchange Group plc, DCMS, Zoopla plc, RM plc, The Scaleup Institute, Cambridge University Press and Cambridge Assessment (2006–2019). She has also acted as an adviser to LinkedIn, the National Gallery, the Royal Society and NESTA.

Prior to her portfolio career, Sherry founded several technology companies and invested in 70 tech start-up companies and five venture capital firms.

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• Read more about Sally Johnson

Appointed 24 April 2020.

Sally joined Pearson in 2000 and has held various finance and operations roles across the business, both at a corporate level and within the business units, including The Penguin Group. She brings to the Board extensive commercial and strategic finance experience, as well as expertise in transformation, treasury, tax, risk management, business and financial operations, investor relations and mergers & acquisitions.

Sally is a Non-Executive Director of Rentokil Initial plc and Chair of its Audit Committee, a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales and trained at PricewaterhouseCoopers. She was also a Trustee for the Pearson Pension Plan from 2012 to 2018.

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