Marjorie Scardino
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"Dame Marjorie Morris Scardino", Order of the British Empire/DBE, Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts/FRSA is an American-born British business executive. She is the former CEO of Pearson PLC. Dame Marjorie became a trustee of Oxfam during her tenure at Pearson [http://www.oxfam.org.uk/what-we-do/about-us/our-trustees]. She has been criticized by Private Eye magazine because, while Oxfam campaigns against corporate tax avoidance as part of the IF Coalition [http://enoughfoodif.org/who-we-are], Pearson was "a prolific tax haven user...routing hundreds of millions of pounds through an elaborate series of [http://groundreport.com/invisible-money-2-voyage-to-luxembourg/ Luxembourg companies] (and a Luxembourg branch of a UK company) to avoid tax". She became the first female Chief Executive of a FTSE 100 company when she was appointed CEO of Pearson in 1997. She is also a non-executive director of Nokia and former CEO of the Economist Group. During her time at Pearson, she had tripled profits to a record £942m. In December 2013, she joined the board of Twitter as its first female director, after a controversy involving a lack of diversity on the Twitter board.{{cite web/title=

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Our leadership in growth markets, our innovation and our efficiencies give us real momentum and we expect our strong performance to continue in 2006 and beyond.

We are making efficiencies and moving to newer authors but established authors are still great cash generators.

The potential of this new company is tremendous.

We expect 2006 to be another good year for Pearson as we continue to increase margins and grow ahead of our markets.

We are now expecting profits to be significantly below our original plans for the year, almost entirely because of the weakness in advertising markets.