Chaired by Greg Clark, our board was introduced a year ago to help us to focus on the strategic direction of the BID industry and identify key priority areas for debate. Board members are derived from our membership and include the British Retail Consortium, the British Council of Shopping Centres, Boots, the Federation of Small Businesses, the Inter Bank Rating Forum plus a variety of representatives from BID management teams and boards along with local authorities.

Our Board members are:

Greg Clark	Chair
John Fletcher	IBRF
Daniel Morgan	BRC
Roger Culcheth	FSB
Mel Richardson	Local Authority
Marc Myers	Chairs Forum
Fiona Wright	Marketing Forum
Andy Godfrey	Alliance Boots
Ed Cooke	BCSC
Sean Bullick	BID - 1st term
Sarah Porter	BID - renewed
Catherine Lambert	Chairman - Retail Management
Roger Hayes	The Green Brain

Greg Clark is a global practice advisor on city building, investment, and strategies for globalisation, working with city and business leaders on the challenges and opportunities of the global urban age. He runs an independent senior advisory practice: The Business of Cities. His current roles include:

• Senior Fellow, ULI Europe, Middle East, Africa, and India.
• Chairman, British Business Improvement Districts, Member, Mayor of London’s Promote London Council.
• Chairman of the OECD Forum of Development Agencies and Investment Strategies,
• Lead Advisor, City & Regional Development, CLG, UK Government.
• Visiting Professor in City Leadership at Cass Business School, City of London,
• Trusted Advisor to global cities/regions and global companies world-wide.
• Writer, commentator, presenter, speaker, moderator, front/anchor man.

• City and Metropolitan Economies as Emerging Markets for global firms.
• How Global Firms and Global Cities can work together for mutual advantage.
• City and Regional Investment Instruments: Public/Private Finance and collaboration.
• City and Regional Marketing, Branding, and the local impact of International Events.
• The Competitive Advantage of Diversity to Cities and Regions.
• The Future and Leadership of Cities and Regions in a Global era.

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John Fletcher is the Real Estate Manager for Nationwide Building Society and Chairman of the Inter Bank Rating Forum.

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Roger has been a member of the Federation of Small Businesses (FSB) for fifteen years. He is a member of the FSB’s national policy team and for the last six years has headed its Local Government Policy team. Among many issues, Roger led the FSB’s campaign for a Small Business Rate Relief Scheme in England and has now seen that campaign become the forthcoming automatic payment of the relief.

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Mel Richardson started her career in 1988 in the tourism industry working as Tourism and Events Officer at Solihull Council whilst also lecturing part time at Solihull College.  In 2000, having moved to Cornwall, Mel managed an ESF funded project recruiting licensees on British Institute of Inn-Keeping training courses, a role that involved legitimate pub crawls throughout Cornwall.  In 2001, following Cornwall’s granting of Objective One status, Mel became part of the Carrick Regeneration Team assisting local business and community groups to apply for Objective One ERDF funding and other match funds.  When businesses demonstrated their commitment to developing a BID scheme in Truro in 2005, Mel was assigned to assist the steering group develop the BID to a successful ballot in 2007.  Now employed by Cornwall Council, Mel has developed two further BID schemes in Falmouth and Newquay and has started a fourth in Camborne.  In April 2011, Mel was seconded for 12 months as Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) Manager for Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly, a post that also carries responsibility for business engagement and overseeing BIDs.

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Marc is Chairman of the Ilford Town BID and has been since supporting their successful ballot in March 2009. He is currently the General Manager of Exchange Ilford, the shopping centre in the very heart of Ilford’s town centre. He has been in the shopping centre industry for 7 years following a career predominantly in retailing and for most of this time with Marks & Spencer where he rose to become Store Manager before embarking on a career change within their business within the Homeware Buying Team before working within the Childrenswear Business Unit in sales management. In between these appointments he worked for the international card manufacture Hallmark Cards and for a two year period worked for B&Q. Outside of his working time Marc is a keen sports fan and enjoys nothing more than spending time with his family.

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Fiona Wright is the marketing and communications co-ordinator for Ipswich Central and brings to the role over 13 years marketing experience.
 

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Andy Godfrey began his retail career in store operations, working as a manager within store and regional teams for more than 15 years.

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Edward is Executive Director at BCSC, responsible for the organisation's public policy and government engagement programmes. Previously Edward worked for the British Retail Consortium (BRC) where he led on property and planning campaigns. Prior to working for the BRC, he worked in the civil service for 4 years in the Department for Constitutional Affairs and the Department for Trade and Industry. Edward has an MSc in Public Policy from UCL.

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After working as a commercial lawyer in London and then spending six years working with museums in London and France, Sean was charged with setting up Newcastle’s first BID Company. Newcastle NE1 Ltd, one of the UK’s largest BID Companies, is now in its third year and is delivering a series or projects to enhance Newcastle city centre, most notably the Alive after Five initiative which has seen the city opening for businesses for the first time in the early evening.

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Sarah leads the Business Alliance which has demonstrated its ability to unite a business community, deliver tangible operational benefits and help realise ambitious projects for the area. In 2004 Sarah worked closely with businesses to ensure a resounding ‘yes’ vote for the Business Improvement District, making the Heart of London Business Alliance the first central London BID. In February 2007, businesses gave Sarah and her team a second vote of confidence ensuring the Heart of London was the first BID in the UK to successfully achieve a second term mandate. 63% of businesses voted with 86% voting in favour of a second term, an impressive achievement building on the original result. An ambitious and visionary negotiator, Sarah is a strong voice on behalf of the business community ensuring issues affecting them are placed onto the wider agenda and in partnership with others, has proved a catalyst for positive change.

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Catherine joined Jones Lang LaSalle in November 2006, promoted to Chairman of Retail Management in January 2011; Leading a Retail Management business with some 180 shopping centres, leisure schemes and retail parks across the UK, of 26 million sq ft and over 4,500 retail and leisure tenants.

With over 18 years of experience in Retail and Shopping Centre management working in the agent and advisory capacity for a range of client owners on property management, development, refurbishment, and asset management, Catherine brings a wealth of knowledge and access to latest market intelligence from the property industry.
 

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