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VIVID Chair awarded CBE in New Year’s Honours List

Charles Alexander, Chair of the Board at VIVID, has been recognised for his contribution to Arts, Culture and Health, by being awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), recently published in 2022 New Year’s Honours list.  

Mark Perry, Chief Executive at VIVID said, “On behalf of VIVID I want to congratulate Charles on being awarded CBE for his contribution to Arts, Culture and Health. It is truly well deserved.” 

Charles has a background in public and private sector roles. He worked for 25 years at Rothschilds latterly as Managing Director of international corporate and project finance, and over 10 years with General Electric as President GE Capital Europe and National Executive of GE in the UK. He has also served as Non-Executive Director of many major publicly listed companies across the world. Most recently Charles has been working as Lead Non-Executive at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport. In addition to his role at VIVID, Charles continues in his position as Chair at the Royal Marsden NHS Trust.