With hundreds of nurseries across the UK, it takes a team of experienced leaders to guide Busy Bees.
Our UK leadership includes our CEO alongside dedicated legal, financial, and operational specialists. Together, they bring years of expertise to ensure Busy Bees offers the very best start in life for children. Their collective leadership has helped us grow from a small local nursery into the UK's largest childcare provider.
Chris joined Busy Bees in 2019 and successfully led our European operations until his appointment as European Chief Executive in 2023. His strategic focus is on supporting our aspiration to become the largest childcare group in the world, ensuring more children are given the Busy Bees Best Start in Life.
We benefit from Chris's wide previous experience in national retail and leisure industries, where he demonstrated significant management and commercial success. One of his key strengths is building high-performing teams, ensuring colleagues are supported and encouraged to develop their professional practice, and positively engaged in helping Busy Bees to meet its long-term goals.
Peter joined Busy Bees in July 2025 and acts as a careful custodian of the Busy Bees family of brands and their values. Peter has more than three decades experience of delivering great service to families, high standards of safety and regulatory compliance and strong commercial leadership.
He is a seasoned international chief executive with a customer service background, leading teams in the Americas, Europe and Asia-Pacific. He served previously as Group Chief Executive of Europcar, Chief Executive of Travelodge, successively as the Head of Strategy, Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Executive for Asia-Pacific of the InterContinental and Holiday Inn owner IHG plc, and as Chief Executive of the European property and services business Safestore plc.