Our Board

Chairman

Jamie Martin OBE
Managing Partner, Ward Hadaway Solicitors 

 

Board Directors

Dame Jackie Fisher CBE
Principal, Newcastle College 

 

Jonathan Blair
Managing Partner, Dickinson Dees 

 

Professor Andrew Wathey 
Vice Chancellor and Chief Executive, Northumbria University 

 

Allison Thompson
HR Director, Northern Rock plc. 

 

Roger Kelly
Chief Executive, Gateshead Council

 

Barry Rowland
Chief Executive, Newcastle City Council 

 

John Mowbray
Director of Corporate Affairs & Environment, Northumbrian Water

 

Bernard Garner
Director General, Nexus

Professor Chris Brink
Vice-Chancellor, Newcastle University




 

Graeme Mason
Head of Planning & Corporate Affairs, Newcastle International Airport

 

Mark Thompson
Director, Ryder Architecture Ltd

Andrew Moffat
Chief Executive Officer, Port of Tyne

 

Barry Blamire
Managing Director, John Lewis Newcastle

David Simms
Commercial Director, ncjMedia 

Richard Thorold
Principal, Gateshead College 

 

Observers

Maggie Pavlou
Director, Belver North, representing the North East Chamber of Commerce

Chief Executive

Sarah Stewart

Company Secretary

 

Auditors

Ernst & Young