Bupa Pays Out Pounds 2m to the Boss ; the Company May Be Not-for-Profit but the Chief Executive Pockets Millions in Pay and Bonuses, Financial Mail

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Few things say you've 'made it' more than an address on the exclusive, gated St George's Hill in Surrey. So when Val Gooding, the boss of private healthcare group Bupa, moved into one of its mansions hyped as being 'a barometer of wealth for the seriously rich' it served to underline her position as one of the country's most powerful and highly paid women executives.

The group's latest annual report, published last week, shows just how powerful and well-rewarded the 53-year-old mother of two has become as if being included on the 180-strong guest list for the Queen's 'Women of Excellence' luncheon party at Buckingham Palace in March was not proof enough.

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Bupa Pays Out Pounds 2m to the Boss ; the Company May Be Not-for-Profit but the Chief Executive Pockets Millions in Pay and Bonuses, Financial Mail

In a record-breaking pay deal for the not-for-profit sector, Gooding pocketed a total of Pounds 2 million last year, ten per cent up on the year before. That included a Pounds 702,285 pension contribution and bonus...

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