Former 3M boss Buckley appointed to advise Rothschild
Sir George Buckley, the former boss of Post-It notes manufacturer 3M and one of the most prominent British executives in the US, is to become a senior adviser to Rothschild bank.
The appointment, which will be announced this week, is considered not to pose a conflict to the Yorkshireman’s role on the advisory board of Deutsche Bank.
“I’m on the board of advisers to Deutsche Bank and I’m going to the same thing for Rothschild America,” Mr Buckley said in an interview with The Daily Telegraph.
“I’m going to be an adviser. It’ll be whatever they want me to do.”
“I’ve dealt with Rothschilds over the years and have found them to be a wonderfully honourable bank.
“They’re a great testimony to advisers in Britain. I think of them almost as a dating service or a marriage broker, but in a positive way, advising companies when a marriage might work and when it might not.”
Sir George, who retired from 3M in June, sits on the boards of Pepsico, Stanley Black & Decker and grain trading and processing company Archer Daniels Midland as well as Japan’s Hitachi.
He chairs Arle Capital Partners, the private equity house bought out of the former Candover Investments, and its oil services firm Expro International.
He also advises the business schools at Southampton and Huddersfield universities.
“I like helping companies make better companies,’ he said.
“I love innovation. I love manufacturing. I’m an engineer’s engineer.I like developing young people.
“I suppose I’m just driven, and have been for the past 25 years, by wanting to do something to help in some kind of foggy and oblique way.”
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