Private Sector Directors
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
Ian Tandy
Managing Director for Global Trade & Receivables Finance, HSBC UK
Local Authority Representatives
Cllr George Allen
Deputy Leader, East Staffordshire Borough Council
Cllr Ian Courts
GBSLEP Board Net Zero Champion; Leader, Solihull Metropolitan Borough Council
Education Representatives
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