BUSINESS in the Community North East has made two senior appointments.
KAREN WILKINSON-BELL has been appointed regional director while GRAEME THOMPSON, managing director of ITV Tyne Tees, has been named chairman of the regional leadership team.
Mr Thompson succeeds John Cuthbert, managing director of Northumbrian Water, who has led the group of regional business leaders for the past three years.
They will focus on how businesses can support education, regeneration, those affected by homelessness and rural issues in the North-East.
Ms Wilkinson-Bell, from Saltburn, east Cleveland, joins from Relate, where she was responsible for the development and operation of services from Tyneside to the North Yorkshire coast.
She is also a non-executive director of an NHS trust, a member of the Chartered Institute of Management, and has an MBA from Durham Business School.
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