Anthony W. B. Hayward

Sir Anthony William Byrd Hayward (1927–2011), also known as Tony Hayward, was a British corporate executive. Hayward is perhaps best remembered for launching the popular Haywards 5000 brand of beer in India.

After serving in the Royal Navy, Hayward arrived in Calcutta (now Kolkata), India, in 1948. He joined the well-known alcohol company Shaw Wallace and rose to become its chairman. and president of the Associated Chambers of Commerce (ASSOCHAM) in 1977. Hayward is said to have guided Shaw Wallace through "very difficult political, economic and bureaucratic hurdles in the 1970s". The Daily Telegraph in London said of Hayward: "A deep and evident empathy for his host nation made him an outstanding ambassador for British commercial interests at an uneasy time, and his gift with words lightened many a prickly encounter."