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Name: JAMES DICK
Occupation: Retiring President, Smith and Nephew Wound Management
Non-executive Director, KCFM 99.9
Other Directorships: Smith and Nephew Medical Ltd (resigning mid 2006)
Smith and Nephew European Distribution Ltd (resigned 2006)
Smith and Nephew Extruded Films Ltd (resigned 2006)
Smith and Nephew Healthcare Ltd (resigned 2006)
Smith and Nephew Surgical Ltd (resigned 2006)
Smith and Nephew Collagenase Ltd (resigned 2006)
Smith and Nephew Pharmaceuticals Ltd (resigned 2006)
T.J. Smith and Nephew Ltd (resigned 2006)
Hull City Image
Hull City Build
Associate Director, Hull City AFC
Other media interests: None
Background and relevant media experience:-
Jim Dick is the retiring President of the Smith and Nephew plc Wound Management Division, where for
the last seven years he has been responsible for all aspects of a £350 million business operating globally.
He was also a member of the Smith and Nephew plc group executive committee. Smith and Nephew is a
FTSE 100 company and is Hull’s biggest private employer.
Jim has extensive experience in the international healthcare sector, with particular strengths in
international marketing, innovation and change management.
Jim’s career with Smith and Nephew spans nearly 30 years. He has experienced a wide variety of jobs
within the company ranging from international marketing manager and general manager to sales and
marketing controller and managing Director of various divisions and businesses within the group.
He is a prominent and well-known member of Hull’s business and commercial community and is actively
involved in organisations helping to promote the city and its achievements.
Jim is a founder and Chairman of Hull City Image – a public private partnership which he helped establish
and is directed towards changing perceptions of Hull both externally and internally. The company has a
Board of Directors made up of leading business, civic and voluntary figures from the Hull area.
He is also a non-executive Director of Hull Citybuild, which is Hull’s urban regeneration company which he
helped establish, as well as a Director of Yorkshire Science, a new body established by Yorkshire Forward
with the aim of promoting science and technology in the region.
Jim is Chairman of trustees of the Smith and Nephew Foundation – the UK’s largest charitable donor of
funds to UK nursing. It focuses on the development of capacity and capability in nursing research in the
area of skin integrity. The other trustees are all eminent nursing professors.
He has been a member of the Yorkshire and Humber Council of the CBI for the last five years and is
currently president of the Humber branch of the Chartered Institute of Marketing as well as an associate
Director of Hull City AFC.
Jim is married with a son aged 21 and lives in North Ferriby.
In tune with the heartbeat of the city
Jim brings to KCFM 99.9 superb experience of marketing at a world-class level as well as excellent local
knowledge of Hull and unrivalled local business, civic and community contacts
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