Liz Taylor is commercially oriented with a strong results focus.  She is an experienced international HR generalist with a track record of working effectively across borders and cultures in Europe, USA and Asia.  Liz commenced her career in high street retail as a graduate trainee with BhS and was quickly promoted to Commercial Manager. Moving to Habitat as Department Manager, Liz then joined their new store openings team and subsequently developed a career in training, resulting in promotion to Training Manager.

Changing industry sectors, Liz joined Scottish & Newcastle plc as Training & Development Manager, Welcome Inns (pubs in Scotland). Further promotions to the newly created S&N Retail resulted in Liz becoming Management Training Manager and then Management Development Manager, before taking responsibility for Executive Management Development at Group level for S&N plc. She was appointed HR Director, S&N International in 2000 and HR Director, S&N Venture Markets in 2004.