Our Board

Anita Bhalla

Interim GBSLEP Chair and GBSLEP Board Creative Industries champion; Chair, B:Music Ltd

Dr David Hardman MBE

Interim GBSLEP Deputy Chair; Consultant, Bruntwood

Mike Lyons

GBSLEP Board Improving Connectivity Champion; Delivery Director, High Speed 2 (HS2) Ltd.

Louise Brooke-Smith OBE

GBSLEP Board Placemaking Champion; Development and Strategic Advisor and Non-Executive Director, Consilio Strategic Consultancy Ltd.

Sophie Drake

GBSLEP Board Young People Champion; Account Director, Story Comms

Christine Oates

Tax Partner, Deloitte

Michael Steventon

Non-Executive Director

Ian Tandy

Managing Director for Global Trade & Receivables Finance, HSBC UK

Cllr Ian Ward

Leader, Birmingham City Council

Cllr George Allen

Deputy Leader, East Staffordshire Borough Council

Cllr Ian Courts

GBSLEP Board Net Zero Champion; Leader, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council

Cllr Olivia Lyons

Leader, Cannock Chase District Council

Cllr Matt Dormer

Leader, Redditch Borough Council

Cllr Jeremy Oates

Leader, Tamworth Borough Council

Cllr Iain Eadie

Deputy Leader, Lichfield District Council

Dawn Ward CBE

Further Education Representative Chief Executive and Principal of Burton and South Derbyshire College

Professor Philip Plowden

Vice-Chancellor of Birmingham City University