Developed Brentwood Borough Councils ambitious Corporate Strategy, Brentwood 2025 “Where everyone matters”, that has enabled the council to deliver its corporate priorities. For example the strategy assisted the council in achieving additional income of circa £2.5m, enabled the establish of a house building programme of 500 homes, to include the largest LA Net Carbon Zero development in the UK, and invest in its leisure provision on top of leading the local response to the Pandemic in 2020-2022.Established a preferred strategic partnership arrangement with Brentwood Borough Council and Rochford District Council that will enable the creation of one management team serving two councils in South Essex providing an initial circa £1m of savings.

Established a preferred strategic partnership arrangement with Brentwood Borough Council and Rochford District Council that will enable the creation of one management team serving two councils in South Essex providing an initial circa £1m of savings.

National Lead CEO for Climate Change and Environment

IGNITE is a Solace leadership programme for Chief Executives supported by the LGA and MHCLG and delivered in partnership with Collaborate CIC.

Lead Executive Officer representing the shareholders of Babergh & Mid Suffolk Councils.Wholly owned company by Babergh and Mid Suffolk District Councils. This is the councils holding company for its subsidiary companies CIFCO (Property Investment Fund), Gateway 14 (Regeneration and Development for Mid Suffolk Council), Babergh Growth (Housing Company) and Mid Suffolk Growth (Housing Company)

With responsibility for Housing Services (a stock of approximately 7000 properties), Environmental & Leisure Services, Assets & Investments (Lead officer for the Council’s owned companies), Economy & Regeneration, Customer Services, Information Technology, Performance and Communications. Responsible for a combined (GF) annual budget of approx. £80million, Housing Revenue Account £32million and a workforce of over 550 FTE.

The programme is designed to help those who aspire to be CEO gain a greater understanding of their leadership skills and give them an insight into how they could prepare to meet the future needs of senior leadership in local government. Delegates were able to maximise their networks and learning potential and see first hand how they respond personally and as part of a team to the ‘real life’ situations – every module provided real context and real challenges.

Wholly owned company of Babergh & Mid Suffolk District Council, created in June 2018. CIFCO Capital is a commercial company, Chaired by Chris Haworth, that’s purpose is to acquire and invest in property, to generate income for the Councils.

Gateway 14 is a 100 acre site with outline planning for a Logistics and Business Park, that is wholly owned by Mid Suffolk DistrictCouncil.On junction 50 of the A14 (euroroute 24) at Stowmarket in the East of EnglandGateway 14 will accommodate over 1 million sq.ft of logistics, warehousing, advanced manufacturing and business space.

Society of Local Authority Chief Executive's (SOLACE) leadership development programme for the best up-and-coming industry leaders within Local Government. Selected following a sector wide application process to be 1 of the 23 participants in the 2017/18 programme.

Responsible for the strategic development and delivery of a range of client and commercial regeneration and environmental services.Bereavement, Parks and Open spaces, Allotments, Events, Whitewebbs Golf Course, Commercial Waste, Procurement and Contract management, Policy and Strategy, External Funding & Advertising, Client and Customer interaction, Waste & Recycling (Technical and Contract management disposal), Pest Control and the lead on the North London Waste Authority partnership.This role was also responsible for the delivery of the commercial strategy and development opportunities within other services such as Building Control, Planning, Parking and Highways.

(Mayor of London & GLA 2016, EU Referendum 2016 & General Election 2017)Responsible for overseeing, monitoring and managing the verification and counting process for the Mayor of London & GLA Election, EU Referendum/General Election and supporting the Enfield Counting/Returning Officer with their electoral duties where required.

• Led a strategic review of income generating frontline services, in particularly Commercial Waste, Cemeteries, Parks Assets and Events. The Council, through new business opportunities, efficiency savings and a flexible but robust fees and charges model will achieve a net £1.2million of cost avoidance/additional income over a 3yr period. Service Areas responsible for:- Commercial Waste, Bereavement Services , Parks, Open Spaces and Allotments, Events and Festivals, Commercial Property Assets, Whitewebbs Golf Course, Public Realm Client Services

Responsible for the Council's Arts & Entertainments services, with 150 FTE’s an annual turnover of over £5million.• Responsible for the development of the cultural strategy and operational service area delivery for all cultural venues, owned by the Council, and major events and festivals within the Borough. • Delivered a 2-year service delivery partnership for the Ipswich Film Theatre, which saved £142,000 per annum.• Achieved significant service area improvements of approximately £120k per annum.• Created and implemented an events and festival marketing strategy that Increased international visitors by 31,000 and national visitors by 120,000 in 2012. This supported over £4.5million of Gross Value Added (GVA) to the Ipswich Economy.Areas of responsibility: - Regent Theatre, Corn Exchange and Town Hall, Cultural Development, Business Development Events and Festivals, Museum and Mansion (facilities) and Partnerships.

• Responsible for commercial partnerships, marketing and publicity and income generation.• Managed key service areas: Business Development; Waterfront Regeneration; Major Events & Festivals; Arts & Sports Development, Cultural facilities, Health Development and Corporate Marketing & Publicity.• Completed an asset utilisation programme which helped save approx. £1million per annum.• Negotiated and completed sponsorship agreements of approximately £800,000 over a 4 year period.• Delivered an annual events and festivals programme attracting 350,000 people per annum.• Annually negotiated and delivered additional income opportunities of approximately £600,000. • Established the Ipswich Maritime Festival (Attracting 70,000 people per annum).• Successfully bid and secured the Tour of Britain Start and 2012 Olympic Torch relay events.Partnership Management, Business Transformation, Develop Policy, Performance Management, Programme Management, Operational Management, Event Management,Income Generation, Marketing & Publicity, Public Relations, Sports, Arts & Cultural Development, Venue, Theatre & Facilities Management

Programme Manager for the organisations unitary authority bid and transformation programme. Overseeing a wide range of projects and work streams across Education, Culture & Heritage, Social Care, Waste and Transport. Managing the programmes resource, risks, finance and interdependencies.Project and Programme Management, Business Transformation, Performance Management, Financial Management, Risk Management, Resource Management, Process Redesign, Developed Workstreams

• Led a wide range of strategic projects including major regeneration initiatives, strategic reviews, corporate efficiency and transformational programmes. • Managed the strategic delivery and completion of the Ravenswood development (1250 dwellings, supporting infrastructure, retail, business, and community facilities as part of the £100million infrastructure budget.• Project managed the successful HQ relocation project (1500 employees and services).Responsible for overseeing Major Regeneration Programmes, Strategic Reviews, Corporate Efficiency and Modernisation Programmes.

• Responsible for leading the CRM service area concerning projects, transformation and customer experience.• Established the council’s first "one-stop shop" customer services centre.• Procured and implemented the Council's first corporate CRM system.• Led the efficiency programme around business process re-engineering and achieved £750,000 in annual savings.• Acted as Investors in People (IIP) representative for Ipswich Borough Council and ensured successful achievement. Responsible for overseeing the CRM department and the delivery of a new "One-Stop-Shop" for Ipswich Borough Council and Local Strategic Partners. The customer services centre (CSC) integrated all frontline departments into a single service area and provision for the public . The CSC provided more efficient and effective processes improving the customers journey and reducing the councils transactional cost by £2million.Business Transformation, Programme Management, Performance Management, Financial & Risk Management, Partnership Management , Business Process Redesign and Channel Migration

Event & Festival Management Concerts, Festivals, Corporate EventsOperational & Logistical PlanningSecured Private Sector FundingPartnership ManagementHealth & SafetyDeveloped and Delivered the first Annual Ipswich Arts Festival - Ip-art (2003)

Delivered a range of operational and logistical Programmes and projects within a large manufacturing company. Responsible for procuring a wide range of services and equipment, engaging with contractors, suppliers and stakeholders.

Ipswich’s first Mascot Character Bluey.