Chief Executive
Camelot Group

Dianne Thompson is the Chief Executive for Camelot Group.

Ms. Thompson started her career as a Marketing Trainee at the Co-operative Wholesale Society. She then worked across this discipline for a variety of companies including ICI Paints and Sterling Roncraft.

While a lecturer at Manchester Polytechnic for seven years she founded, and ran, her own advertising agency. She then spent five years as Managing Director of Sandvik Saws and Tools.

In 1992 she became Marketing Director of Woolworths, moving on to become Marketing Director for the Signet Group. There she was part of the new team brought in to turn around the Ratner chain’s image.

In February 1997 Ms. Thompson joined Camelot: the first female Executive Director to join the Board. She led the business through a successful judicial review to win the second National Lottery license for the organization in December 2000. She became Chief Executive shortly after.

In addition, Ms. Thompson is a former Non-Executive Director of RAC. She has served as a Director of Domino's Pizza UK since 2006.

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