Derek Foster
Group Head of Internal Audit, Thomas Cook
Derek is a Chartered Accountant with extensive experience across a number of industries. After beginning his career in Deloitte, he went on to specialise in risk management, assurance and internal audit. Derek is Group Head of Internal Audit at Thomas Cook plc. He also set up the Internal Audit function at Electrocomponents plc (a FTSE 250 company), ran the worldwide Audit function for CIC (a global movie company), ran the North European Internal Audit function of General Motors, and led the Internal Audit & Risk Management function for Royal Mail, during which time Royal Mail successfully executed one of the biggest operational transformations in Europe and successfully listed as a public company on UK Stock Exchange.
Derek is also involved with the Institute of Internal Auditors as part of their External Quality Assessment panel and is on the Board of Governors and the Audit & Risk Committee at St Albans School.