Ruth Kennedy

Ruth Kennedy is a brand consultant, advising clients in the luxury goods and services sectors to meet their business development objectives. From 2006 to 2009 she served as head of Quinlan Private UK, a real estate and private equity group managing commercial and residential properties in Europe, including luxury hotels. Before that position, Ruth spent 16 years with David Linley and Co., the bespoke furniture and design business. She began her career at S.G. Warburg as an investment banker. Ruth is a non-executive director on the boards of Daylesford Organic, Bamford, Value Retail (the owners of Bicester Village), and until 2019 on the public board of Belmond Hotels.

In 2009 Ruth founded the Louis Dundas Centre for Children’s Palliative Care at Great Ormond Street Hospital and UCL Institute of Child Health. She is also a patron of the Elton John AIDS Foundation.