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Jack Stopforth
Chief Executive Officer
ceo@liverpoolchamber.org.uk
Jack joined the Chamber as Chief Executive
in March 2005. Before that he was managing director of the Cumbria
Inward Investment Agency for eight years. He was born in Liverpool
and spent his early career as a development economist in London.
He returned to work in Merseyside between 1978 and 1997, first
as Chief Economic Adviser to Merseyside County Council and latterly
(1986 to 1997) as owner manager of two public affairs, public relations
and advertising companies.
Jack believes that the Chamber should not just represent business
but, where appropriate, set the policy agenda in discussion with
employers, key public agencies and government. This will be increasingly
important as we approach the end of European Objective One funding
in 2006. The pump-priming undertaken by the public agencies has
helped improve Liverpool's physical infrastructure and stimulate
its economy. This is especially true in construction and property
development, but also in the growth of the service sector and high
technology sectors including bio-pharmaceuticals, automotive manufacture
and supply and electronics. However, the onus is on the business
community to sustain local economic growth through private enterprise.
The Chamber's role as the primary conduit for businesses to benefit
from economic change will be ever more vital.
More fundamentally, Chamber members have a right to expect
us to be responsive to the issues they as companies feel are
important. They have the right to expect a professional, value
added service and they require their Chamber to be dynamic
and well managed. In these respects, the agendas of the Chamber
and its membership are absolutely synchronised.
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