Dorothy Barbery

Ms Barbery has over 30 years' experience in retail and service centric roles across the USA, UK and Australia. Alice first met the Universal Store Holdings Limited (Universal Store) founders in 2002 when she helped them establish a framework for the business as a retail specialist until 2004. Alice joined Universal Store full time as Chief Operating Officer in 2009 and was appointed Chief Executive Officer in 2017. Alice has been a shareholder of Universal Store since 2016. Alice worked at GAP International, transferring from the USA to the UK. In this role, Alice supported the expansion of GAP in the UK, before taking a national leadership role with women's fashion brand EAST which she expanded throughout England. Alice is also a Non Executive board member of the National Retail Association since May 2021.