John Towers (businessman) John Towers (businessman) John Towers CBE (born 30 March 1948) is an English businessman, who was the owner and managing director of MG Rover Group from 2000 until the company entered administration in 2005. This followed a succession of senior appointments within Rover, which he had joined from Massey Ferguson in 1988. Towers started his career in 1966 as a student apprentice with Perkins Engines of Peterborough, which by that time had become a subsidiary of Massey Ferguson. He rose within Perkins to become Director of Engineering before leaving in 1988 to join the Rover Group. Together with Peter Beale,
John Robin Stephenson in 1988 in an effort to improve the club's image and he introduced guided tours at Lord's in 1989, which were popular. He retired in 1993 and was succeeded by Roger Knight. In 1994, he was promoted civil CBE for "services to cricket". Stephenson married Karen Margrethe Koppang in 1962. The couple had a son and two daughters. He died at Salisbury, Wiltshire from a stroke in 2003, aged 72. John Robin Stephenson Lieutenant Colonel John Robin Stephenson (25 February 1931 – 2 June 2003) was a British Army officer and cricket administrator. John Stephenson was born in Sussex and