Sir Stephen Lovegrove, KCB Home People profiles Sir Stephen Lovegrove, KCB Non-Executive Director Stephen Lovegrove, CB, Non-Executive Director, was appointed to the Grosvenor Britain & Ireland Board in February 2016. He spent nine years with Deutsche Bank, and nine with the Shareholder Executive, becoming Chief Executive in 2007. He was the Government’s representative on the Board of the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games and Paralympic Games, and was a trustee of the Charities Aid Foundation. He is Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Defence, and before that the Department of Energy and Climate Change.