Prospect Board Members
Prospect Leicestershire board members
Andrew Bacon - Regional Director, BT East Midlands
Ian Borley - Senior Partner, KPMG Leicester
Penny Coates - Managing Director, East Midlands Airport
Sue Farmer - Bea Consulting
Councillor Patrick Kitterick, Leicester City Council
Sanjay Mehta - MD Essar Global Ltd
Alistair Reid - Strategic Director, Regeneration, Culture and Development, Leicester City Council
Councillor Nick Rushton - Deputy Leader, Leicestershire County Council
David Seviour - Principal Consultant, DAS Housing and Regeneration Agency
John Sinnott, Chief Executive, Leicestershire County Council
Sue Smith, Chief Executive, Harborough District Council
More Information on our Board Members
Nick Carter - Chairman
Nick is a former editor and director of the Leicester Mercury and a consultant in media, communication and cohesion. Nick spent 34 years in the media business, 22 of them editing major regional titles. He has a joint honours degree in History and Politics from Warwick University. In 2001 he started what is now the Leicester Multicultural Advisory Group, comprised of senior figures from all communities who meet to consider and advise on diversity issues. He is currently chair of that group. He is also a member of the advisory board for Common Purpose, Leicestershire and a member of Leicestershire Business Council. He is an emeritus member of the Society of Editors and serves on its Parliamentary and Legal Committee, which he chaired between 1997 and 1999. He also served on the Home Office Media Practitioners Group. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce. He lives in the centre of Leicester.
Andrew Bacon
Andrew is the Regional Director for BT in the East Midlands in addition to being a director within BT's Local Government business across the UK, having worked in manufacturing, transport and public sector for 23 years. Andrew is a non-executive board member of Liverpool Direct Limited and Customer Services Direct Limited in Suffolk, two joint venture companies between BT and local authorities. Andrew sits on the Greenest County Think Tank in Suffolk chaired by the Suffolk Strategic Partnership and is a private sector sponsor of Third Sector social enterprises. Andrew is a member of the CBI Council for the East Midlands and represents BT on the CBI Local Government Panel. He currently sits on the board of the LeicesterShire Economic Partnership, a board member for the last 12 months. A graduate of Leicester Polytechnic, Andrew is a now member of the De Montfort University Employer/Business Advisory Panel. He lives in Bushby, Leicestershire.
Ian Borley
Ian is the senior partner at KPMG Leicester and is chairman of Leicestershire Business Voice as well as being a member of the Leicestershire Business Council. Educated at Leicester Polytechnic, Ian worked for Peat, Marwick, Mitchell & Co (now KPMG) as an Audit trainee. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989 and spent spells in KPMG's Management Consulting and Restructuring practices, throughout which time he remained based in Leicester but also worked in Birmingham, London and Budapest. In 1995, he re-joined the Audit practice in Leicester and was made a Partner two years later. In 2007, he was appointed Senior Partner at Leicester. Ian is also a non-executive director of the National Space Centre and of Special Olympics Leicester 2009. He lives with his family near Twycross.
Penny Coates
Penny is Managing Director East Midlands Airport and MAG Regional Airports (Bournemouth and Humberside). She is also a director of the Manchester Airport Group Board and of the UK Airport Operators Association Board. Penny has a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science from Leicester and an MBA (Loughborough/Henley). She is a non-executive director of Melton Mowbray Building Society and a member of Council for Loughborough University. Before moving into the airport business, Penny worked for Mars for seven and was also Business Unit Director of Asda (culminating in the £6bn own label business) , three years at Boots the Chemists in Business Development and Strategy Development and four years at Walkers Snackfoods (PepsiCo). She grew up on a farm in Leicestershire and has lived in east Leicestershire ever since.
Sue Farmer
Sue Farmer is the Head of HR for the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors. Her career in Human Resources spans 20 years, 10 of these at senior level. Starting out with John Lewis Partnership she later moved to work for the Halifax, Provident Financial and RCI Europe before joining Waterstone's as the Senior HR Business Partner where she spent four years managing the people aspects of the UK and European stores. More recently Sue has been a key member of the Technology Senior Leadership Team at Alliance and Leicester. Sue has lived in Leicestershire since her teens and now lives with her family in Ashby de la Zouch. She is the chair of the Packington School Association where her oldest son attends.
Patrick Kitterick
Patrick is currently Leicester City Council's Cabinet Member for Regeneration & Transport, a position he took up when Labour won a majority in the local election of May 2007. He has been a member of Leicester City Council since May 2003, representing the city centre Castle ward. He was born in Bury in 1972 and was educated at York University, where he was awarded a BA Honours degree in Economics & Politics. He joined the Labour Party in 1989 and worked for the East Midlands Labour Party as an organiser from 1996 to 1997. He was Constituency Office Manager for Andy Reed MP from 1997-2001. Patrick has sat on the boards of Leicester Shire Promotions, Leicestershire Economic Partnership and the Leicester Regeneration Company. He is also a governor at Hazel Primary School, Leicester.
Sanjay Mehta
Sanjay is a managing director of Essar Global Limited, the holding company of the Essar Group of companies. He is also CEO of Essar Shipping & Logistics Limited, Cyprus and Managing Director of Essar Shipping Ports and Logistics Limited a stock listed company on the Bombay Stock Exchange. Essar Global Limited has significant investments in steel, oil refining, power generation, telecommunications, shipping & logistics and construction with yearly consolidated revenue of approximately USD 18 billion. Sanjay graduated from the LSE and has worked at Goldman Sachs, Hambros Bank, Spence and Young and American Marine Advisors Inc. Married to a Leicester woman, he lives in Leicestershire.
Alistair Reid
Alistair has been appointed as Leicester City Council's Strategic Director, Regeneration, Development and Culture. He will lead the Council's work on three of the "One Leicester" priorities - Reducing Carbon Footprint, Investing in Skills and Enterprise, and Planning for People Not Cars. Having finished a 12 month stint as Corporate Director, Adults and Housing, and having previously led on much of the City's environmental work, Alistair has a rounded view of the social, economic and environmental challenges facing Leicester. He has worked in Leicester since 1986, predominantly on economic development, regeneration and transport. In 1999 he led the team which put together the New Deal for Communities bid in Braunstone, attracting government investment of £50million. He then led the City Council's work on putting in place the Leicester Regeneration Company. Between 2001 and 2006 he was the City's Director of Highways and Transportation and was instrumental in developing the City's excellent-rated Local Transport Plan. He has been active in developing a range of partnerships with the voluntary, community and private sectors.
He has a BA in Economic & Social History, (Strathclyde) and gained an MBA with distinction from De Montfort University in 1993. His thesis, on the development of partnerships, was awarded the 1994 annual prize of the Leicester branch of the Institute of Management. Alistair holds a season ticket at Leicester City, though is equally at home cheering on the Tigers. He is a committed road cyclist, participating in 4 or 5 endurance events each year.
Nick Rushton
Cllr Nick Rushton is Deputy Leader of Leicestershire County Council and member of the Cabinet with specific responsibility for Highways & Transportation matters. He was first elected to Leicestershire County Council in 1989 representing the Ashby Division. In 2001 he stood for re election and was elected to represent the Breedon Electoral Division. Following a boundary review Nick was re-elected in 2005 representing the new Valley Division. Nick is also a District councillor on NWLDC, representing the Breedon ward and at present he is in the cabinet as the portfolio holder for place shaping
David Seviour
David is principal consultant of the DAS Housing and Regeneration Agency and was formerly group chief executive of the LHA-ASRA housing group. Prior to that he was founder director of the Leicester Housing Association and also founder of the Third Sector east midlands social enterprise Group, TREES. In 2006 David was appointed Chair of Urban Living, the Birmingham and Sandwell Housing Market Renewal Pathfinder and was awarded an OBE "for services to social housing" in the Queen's Birthday Honours. Currently Chair of the social enterprise Project Management (Staffordshire) Limited, David is a board member of the Leicester Regeneration Company. He is a graduate of the University of East Anglia, a Member of the Chartered Institute of Housing, and lives in Wing, Leicestershire.
John Sinnott
John has been the Chief Executive of Leicestershire County Council for 14 years during which time there was no political administration, a joint administration and now a single party administration. The County Council has regularly drawn praise from inspectors and is in the highest rated group of local authorities. His local government career began in Liverpool and Merseyside, where he was born and educated, school and university. He has been involved in all the main public: private partnerships in Leicester and Leicestershire over the last decade. He is involved in local government at the national level and currently leading in discussions with Government on sport and physical activity policy, particularly in the context of London 2012.
Sue Smith
Sue is Chief Executive at Harborough District Council. She has held this post since 2005 and has worked in local government since 1980 in a number of roles with district and borough councils. Sue was a Director of the Royal Institute of British Architects from 2002-8. She has extensive experience of the client role for construction projects and chaired the RIBA Client Services Task Group from 2002-8. She was also a member of the Constructing Excellence Best Practice Knowledge Board. Sue is on the board of the LeicesterShire Economic Partnership. She has previously been a governor of Tamworth and Lichfield College and Market Harborough C o E School. Sue has a Master of Arts in Leisure and Recreation, Bachelor of Arts in Psychology and a Diploma in Business Excellence.