Bupa chief executive Val Gooding has been awarded a CBE (Commander of the British Empire) in the New Year Honours lists for her services to business.
She said: “I am pleased to have been awarded this. It is recognition of skill and dedication demonstrated by everybody in the company and indeed the colleagues I have worked with in the course of the year.”
Gooding joined the company as managing director in 1996 and became chief executive in 1998.