Our leadership team

Tim Stacey, CEO of the DFS Group, joined DFS in July 2011, prior to becoming the Group CEO he held a number of key leadership roles across the business.

Tim has a wealth of leadership and retail experience, including 12 years at Alliance Boots in roles such as Multi-Channel Director for Boots.com and Director for Online and Business Development.

Tim has a BA(Hons) in Accounting and Finance from Nottingham Trent University and is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of England and Wales.

John Fallon, CFO of the DFS Group, joined DFS in November 2022.

John has developed strong retail and finance leadership experience prior to DFS, including over 20 years at Asda as group Chief Financial Officer, Commercial Finance Director, Group Financial Controller and Internal Audit Director.

John has a BA (Hons) in Accounting & Finance from Manchester Metropolitan University and is a member of the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants.

Nick Smith joined the business in October 2017. Prior to becoming Chief Executive of the DFS retail brand in November 2019, he held the roles of Chief Retail Officer and Retail Director.  

Nick has over 30 years of retail leadership experience, including Dixons Carphone undertaking a number of senior leadership roles within Dixons, Currys and PC World latterly as the Retail Director

He also holds executive responsibility for our Manufacturing operations.

Russell Harte has executive responsibility for the Group's Operations and leads the teams across Supply Chain & Logistics, Technology & Data, Property, People, Procurement and  Business Change. He has worked across the business leading the digitisation of web and operational services in the organisation.

Prior to DFS, Russell held a number of Technology roles at IBM and Alliance Boots.

Russell has a BEng (Hons) in Electronic and Electrical Engineering.