Graham Stapleton / Operating Partner,
European Consumer

Graham Stapleton is a retail and services executive with more than 30 years of leadership experience across food, automotive, home improvement, telecommunications, and consumer electronics in the UK, Europe, and the United States. He currently serves as Chairman of a UK Starbucks franchise business and a UK motor insurance company.

Mr. Stapleton previously served as Chief Executive Officer of Halfords Group PLC, the UK’s largest motoring and cycling retailer and second-largest independent garage services business. Earlier in his career, he was an Executive Director at Dixons Carphone PLC and Chief Executive Officer of Carphone Warehouse UK & Ireland.

Mr. Stapleton also serves as a trustee of Make-A-Wish UK.