Neal has worked at McDonald’s for over 40 years, starting as a crewmember whilst completing his studies.

After several years in various operational management positions, Neal led the UK Reward team for sixteen years, driving improvement and innovation in the value and range of benefits offered to McDonald’s UK employees. The team’s work received regular external recognition including the prestigious Employee Benefits Grand Prix award for their alignment of reward strategy to business strategy.

Over the last eight years, Neal has worked within the Global Total Rewards team evolving global frameworks, leading the co-ordination, communication and leadership reporting of the global annual compensation cycle and helping to introduce a choice programme to all global LTI recipients.

Neal has a BA in Accounting and Finance from Kingston University, is a Chartered Fellow of the CIPD and was honoured to be voted the Employee Benefits Professional of the Year in 2014.