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Phil Bentley (Phillip Keague Bentley) was born on 14 January, 1959 in Bradford, England, is a British businessman. Discover Phil Bentley's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 65 years old?

Popular As Phillip Keague Bentley
Occupation Businessman
Age 65 years old
Zodiac Sign Capricorn
Born 14 January 1959
Birthday 14 January
Birthplace Bradford, England
Nationality United Kingdom

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1959

Phillip Keague Bentley (born 14 January 1959) is a British businessman.

He is the chief executive officer (CEO) of Mitie, and formerly the CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications.

and the managing director of British Gas, the British retail arm of the energy company Centrica.

Bentley was brought up in Bradford, and attended Woodhouse Grove School in Apperley Bridge.

He holds a master's degree from Pembroke College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD.

He is also a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Bentley is married and has two children.

1982

Bentley joined BP's graduate recruitment scheme in 1982, training as a management accountant.

1983

He worked in China from 1983 to 1985, and then Egypt and the US, before returning to the UK as head of capital markets.

1999

He joined Grand Metropolitan in 1995, which became Diageo in 1997; from 1 July 1999 until 2000 he was finance director of UDV Guinness.

2000

Bentley was group finance director of Centrica from 2000 to February 2007.

2002

Between 2002 and 2010 he was a non-executive director and chair of the audit committee of Kingfisher plc.

2004

and was also managing director, Europe from July 2004 to September 2006.

2006

On 19 September 2006 it was announced that Bentley would become the managing director of British Gas, part of the Centrica group, taking over from Mark Clare from March 2007.

Bentley's stewardship was often controversial, as the company raised residential energy prices several times during his reign; protests at company premises were not unusual.

Bentley frequently appeared in the media defending the company's decisions.

The controversy was fuelled by the rise in profits during Bentley's stewardship – profits from the residential energy division of British Gas increased by 24% in one year alone.

Bentley repeatedly claimed that price rises were beyond the company's control, and that they were not increased to raise profits.

Bentley said that the reason for the price increase was that average domestic gas consumption had increased by 12 per cent compared to the warmer previous year.

2012

On 1 October 2012 Bentley was apportioned non-executive director of global engineering group IMI, and also joined the audit committee and nominations committee.

2013

Throughout his time at the company Bentley's salary (£681,000 in 2013) was the subject of frequent criticism.

As managing director for seven-years, Bentley did have commercial success at Centrica, increasing turnover by nearly £4 billion.

He was credited with improving the company’s customer services and rolling out new technologies such as smart meters.

On 27 February 2013, Centrica announced that Bentley would step down from his role at British Gas, from the Centrica board on 30 June 2013, and leave the company's employment on 31 December 2013.

Bentley was replaced by the managing director of Direct Energy (also part of the Centrica group) Chris Weston.

On 17 October 2013 it was announced that Bentley would succeed Tony Rice as CEO of Cable & Wireless Communications from 1 January 2014, coinciding with the relocation of the company headquarters from London to Miami, Florida.

2014

On 6 January 2014, C&WC announced that Bentley had purchased 4.3 million shares in the company, at a value of around 3 times his basic salary of £800,000.

2016

He demitted office after the acquisition of CWC by Liberty Global on 16 May 2016.

In October 2016, it was announced that he would succeed Ruby McGregor-Smith as CEO of Mitie, which he duly did on 13 December 2016.

2020

Under Bentley’s leadership, Mitie has become the biggest FM operator in the UK, partly because of their acquisition of Interserve in late 2020.

Since the start of the COVID pandemic, Bentley has overseen Mitie’s work delivering a wide range of services, including running Covid-19 testing sites, cleaning offices and major transport services, and providing security for new quarantine hotels.

He has also attempted to use the pandemic to redefine the traditional image of cleaning by introducing UVC robots and units.

current basic salary of £900,000 – As the Chief Executive Officer and Executive Director of MITIE Plc, the total compensation of Phil Bentley at MITIE Plc is £2,648,470.

There are no executives at MITIE Plc getting paid more.