Dominic Blakemore

Group Chief Executive Officer, Compass Group PLC

Search every verified Dominic Blakemore interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. In a March 2026 interview, Dominic Blakemore said he was "more excited about what's ahead of us than I've ever been" regarding Compass Group's prospects. He described a $360 billion addressable market across 26 countries and stated that the company holds less than a 15% share but is twice the size of its next two competitors combined. Blakemore said the company views perceived threats such as artificial intelligence and GLP-1 drugs as opportunities, noting that Compass is focusing AI use on purchasing and sales processes using proprietary data. He estimated that job displacement from AI would affect "a few percentage points" of entry-level roles over several years, while new AI-enabled jobs and client divisions would emerge. During the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in May 2020, Blakemore stated that Compass had acted "quickly and decisively" by reducing costs by £500 million per month, protecting cash, cutting capital expenditure, suspending M&A and dividends, and increasing committed facilities by £800 million to £2.8 billion. He said the company had obtained waivers from US private placement investors for its next two leverage covenant tests. Blakemore described the capital raising step as being "about reducing leverage" and introducing resilience to withstand the next 12 to 18 months, with a goal of returning leverage to its historical range of one to one and a half times.