Local Enterprise Partnership Chairs – Biographies 2021
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Local Enterprise Partnership Chairs – Biographies 2021 Tom Westley DL Andrew Smith Black Country LEP Buckinghamshire LEP Tom is Chairman of the Westley Andrew always wanted to work in the film Group, one of Europe’s largest industry, then after being a civil servant, copper-based alloy foundry and having a stint in politics, starting up his own engineering groups consisting of five business and training to be a scuba diving brands: Spunalloys, Walter Frank, instructor, his dream came true and he Francis W Birkett, Westleys, JT Price went to work for Pinewood in 2008. and Meighs Ltd. The group employs more than 300 people and has a As Director of Corporate Affairs, Andrew turnover in excess of €30 million. has been instrumental in the development of the Pinewood site and development of Tom is the Board Lead on Enterprise the international reputation of the studio Zones and Chair of the Enterprise and in particular in developing strong Zones Management Steering Group. investment links. He is also a member of the Funding Applications Sub-Group and a LEP representative on the Black Country Joint Advisory Group. A Board member of Buckinghamshire LEP since 2012, Andrew has been instrumental in guiding and supporting the growth of the LEP and his In 2017, Tom was made Deputy Lieutenant to Her Majesty’s Lord Lieutenant knowledge of the film and creative arts sector has been invaluable in the for the West Midlands. development of this growth area for Buckinghamshire. Andrew is also a non- executive Director of Buckinghamshire Business First. He is passionate about allowing everybody opportunity, especially the long- term unemployed and NEETs. Local Enterprise Partnership Chairs – Biographies 2021 Austen Adams Clare Hayward MBE DL Greater Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Combined Cheshire & Warrington Enterprise Partnership Authority (The Business Board) (Interim Chair) Austen has accumulated 30 years’ experience in Clare is a highly competent chair and managing profitable engineering companies facilitator at senior management and board across the world. Having started his career as an level. She co-founded, developed and sold engineering apprentice in the industrial heart of Academee, a global leadership development the UK, the Black Country, he has transcended consultancy, to Oliver Wyman, a division of all levels of management. Marsh and McLennan Companies in 2008. She was retained, post-acquisition, as An advocate of modern management practices, Global Partner of Sales and Market he trained with Textron Inc. in the US as a global Development within this Fortune250 group. business trouble shooter before going on to hold a number of senior executive roles in sales, operational and general A successful business woman and entrepreneur focused on leadership and management in businesses across five continents. Sound strategic thinking, strategic engagement who has coached, facilitated and chaired boards, senior hard work, determination and teamwork underpin Austen’s reputation for management teams and leaders across the globe over the last 20 years getting the job done. working in industry sectors including technology, banking and finance, natural resources, retail and manufacturing. Experience also includes investment Austen currently manages a portfolio of twelve industrial business within funding and negotiating the sale and purchase of several businesses. Clare Avingtrans plc, two in China and ten in the UK, serving the medical and energy also has significant experience within the community, charity and local sectors. Two of his portfolio cornerstone businesses of Peter Brotherhood and political landscape. Metalcraft are situated within the Combined Authority. A committed and hands on supporter of local, national and international bodies holding posts in Clare is the Growth Director at Cirrus, a Leadership, talent and engagement advisory board roles for the National Skills Academy Nuclear, Nuclear consulting firm, working with FTSE 100 clients and is also a Deputy Lieutenant Advanced Manufacturing Research Centre, EEF and the Walsall Economic for Cheshire. Other roles include: Queen’s Voluntary Award Assessment Board. Austen also provides local advisory services to SMEs in the engineering Board, East Cheshire Hospice Ambassador and Angel, and MMU MBA Advisory sector. Board. Previous roles include: Chair of Make it Macclesfield and board member of Peaks and Plains Housing Trust. Local Enterprise Partnership Chairs – Biographies 2021 Julie Kapsalis Mark Duddridge Coast to Capital LEP Cornwall & Isles of Scilly LEP Julie has worked in economic development Mark was a main board director of for over 15 years with a particular focus on Samworth Brothers which owns enterprise, skills and social inclusion. She Callington-based Ginsters and Tamar served as an advisor to the UK Foods in South East Cornwall. Government's task force on women's enterprise and has recently contributed to He was Managing Director of Ginsters the Rose Review of Female for 15 years, Samworth Brothers for Entrepreneurship. Julie is diversity almost 20 years and until recently was champion for the LEP. a Director of Roddas Clotted Cream. She is a Board Member at Gatwick Diamond Before that he held a variety of roles Business and the Institute of Economic with Northern Foods, including Development and is former Chair of the Chichester Chamber of Commerce & commercial and site Director of a Industry. number of their operating businesses. Julie is Managing Director of Chichester College Group with responsibility for a He is currently an associate non-executive Director of the Cornwall portfolio of commercial businesses including a chain of childcare nurseries, Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. examination board and international education. Julie previously worked as director at the South East England Development Agency, managing a portfolio of contracts including Business Link and Finance South East. Prior to this she has a background in consumer marketing and PR. In 2012 she fulfilled a long-held ambition to work on the London 2012 Olympics and managed a legacy programme to encourage volunteering and community engagement in sport. Local Enterprise Partnership Chairs – Biographies 2021 Nick Abell Lord Richard Inglewood Coventry & Warwickshire Cumbria LEP LEP Nick Abell was appointed interim chair of the Richard Inglewood is a Cumbrian non- CWLEP in April 2020. affiliated Member of the House of Lords. He was previously Chair of the boards of He became a board director at the CWLEP in Cumbrian businesses Carr’s Milling 2012 and he was appointed vice-chair five Industries plc, CN Group Ltd and Gen2. years later. He will shortly become chair of the CWLEP’s Lord Inglewood has also held a number of Programme Delivery Board which he has been ministerial positions during his career. He a member of since it was established in 2015, was the minister for broadcasting and for and he was chair of the CWLEP’s Finance & tourism during his time as Parliamentary Governance Board until he was appointed Under-Secretary of State at the Department interim chair of the entire organisation. of National Heritage in the late 1990s. He has also served twice as a regional MEP, first for Cumbria and Lancashire Nick represents the CWLEP on the West Midlands Combined Authority’s North and then for North West England. Investment Board and as a non-executive director on the board of the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre (UKBIC). He is President of Cumbria Tourism and has been Deputy Lieutenant for Nick qualified as a solicitor in 1982 and after working in the West End of Cumbria since 1993 and Vice-Lord Lieutenant for Cumbria since 2012. London until 1986, he re-joined Wright Hassall in Leamington Spa. Lord Inglewood was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge and the Cumbria He was promoted to partner in 1988 and then senior partner until he stepped College of Agriculture and Forestry. He was called to the Bar in 1975, is a down from being a partner four years ago. Chartered Surveyor (MRICS) and a Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries (FSA). He is currently chairman of Wright Hassall, which is a leading law firm in the region. Nick is a trustee at the Elizabeth Creek Charitable Trust and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust. Local Enterprise Partnership Chairs – Biographies 2021 Elizabeth Fagan CBE Cecilia Bufton Derby, Derbyshire, Nottingham & Dorset LEP Nottinghamshire Elizabeth became Chair of the D2N2 Local Cecilia has enjoyed a successful Enterprise Partnership in July 2018. She is business career over 30 years, working the recent former Non-Executive Chairman in a range of companies from SMEs to of Boots, having been appointed as the first multinational businesses and a Trade female Managing Director of Boots in 2016. Association. Elizabeth sits on the board of the Office for She has held senior level roles in Students, the independent regulator for strategic marketing, sales and business higher education in England. She is also a development and brings to the Board Non-Executive Director of the Australian her experiences of working in medical, listed pooling solutions company Brambles. pharmaceutical, digital health and She is President of the Incorporated Society wellbeing companies. of British Advertisers and is a member and past President of Women in Advertising and Her career has involved the Communications Club. Elizabeth was also a development and delivery of products member of the ASA Council for six years. In August 2013, she became a Fellow and services that help change the way healthcare is delivered. of the Marketing Society and, in the same year, was awarded a Cosmetic Executive Women UK, Achiever Award. As a non-executive director, business adviser and charity chair, Cecilia’s enjoys working with organisations, helping to create a compelling vision for their Elizabeth has been awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Science by future and working with them to achieve their goals. Nottingham Trent University and in January 2020 received a CBE in the Queen’s New Year Honours list for her services to gender equality in business. Cecilia is a science graduate with an MBA focused on international, strategic marketing and a certificate in Global Leadership from the University of Oxford.