Jane Dessar

Jane Dessar is a Partner in the Odgers Berndtson London office where she heads up the Consumer & Retail Practice and is a member of the Board & CEO Practice. Her focus is on senior level and main board appointments with a functional focus on CEO/MD, marketing, communications, sales, commercial, strategy and human resources appointments. Her client base includes both UK and multi-national businesses and these range from privately held, and owner driven businesses, through to quoted companies and private equity backed organisations in the fmcg/consumer sectors of food, drink and personal care, luxury and consumer durables, as well as in the travel, leisure and hospitality sectors.

Jane joined from a highly regarded boutique search firm and previously spent 12 years at another leading global firm where she headed up a number of the firm’s largest consumer and retail client relationships. Jane began her career in marketing, initially on behalf of BP Oil and then at HJ Heinz and Whitbread Plc.

Jane graduated in Management Sciences from UMIST.