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Top business women join
North East LEP board
Gillian Marshall, Jacqui Miller-Charlton and
Sandra Thompson have been appointed to
the partnership’s business growth board
Three of the region’s most respected business women have
joined the North East Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP)
business growth board to help lead its strategic direction
and delivery.
Gillian Marshall, chief executive of the Entrepreneurs’
Forum (pictured), Jacqui Miller-Charlton, the main board director
and shareholder of Miller International Limited, and Sandra
Thompson, Newcastle partner at accountancy group EY, are set to
bring vast public and private sector experience to the board, having
reached the top in their respective industries.
The trio have been joined by Ryan Maughan, managing director
of Cramlington-based AVID Technology Group Limited and will
replace outgoing members Julian Leighton, Allison Thompson, Rob
Earnshaw and James Hall.
Andrew Hodgson, North East LEP Chair, said: “We are delighted
to welcome four exceptional business people onto our board whose
skills, expertise and business insight will be crucial at a time of great
challenge for the North East economy.”
BUSINESS
North East entrepreneur
wins 2016 bfa HSBC female
franchisee of the year
A businesswoman from Morpeth has been named
bfa HSBC Female Franchisee of the Year.
Tricia Craig, who single-handedly runs her
business, Metro Rod, received the accolade at the
British Franchise Association’s HSBC Franchisee of
the Year Awards 2016.
Tricia co-founded the Newcastle based drainage
business in 1999 and took overall control of in
2013 by buying out her business partner. Now
branded Metro Rod North East, the business
incorporates Sunderland and Middlesbrough and
employs 19 staff.
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