Simon Townsend (businessman)

{{Short description|British businessman}}

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| birth_name = William Simon Townsend

| birth_date = February 1962

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William Simon Townsend (born February 1962) is a British businessman, CEO of Enterprise Inns, a British pub company, and a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index.

William Simon Townsend was born in February 1962.{{cite web|title=Enterprise Inns plc|url=https://beta.companieshouse.gov.uk/company/02562808/officers|website=Companies House|accessdate=16 August 2015}}

Townsend has been a director of Enterprise Inns since 1 October 2000, and CEO since 6 February 2014. He has also worked for Whitbread, Allied Domecq, Rank Group, Marstons, and Thompson & Eversheds.{{cite web|title=Executive Profile* William Simon Townsend|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/research/stocks/people/person.asp?personId=8674913&ticker=ETINF|website=Bloomberg|accessdate=16 August 2015}}