The Lancashire Business Board

Comprising of leaders from the county's foremost regional, national and international firms, the Lancashire Business Board's role is to:

  • provide a private sector perspective and business voice in local policy development
  • act as advocates for the Lancashire economy and support efforts to win inward investment from the private and public sector
  • act as the voice of business in the development of devolution in Lancashire
  • draw on personal and business acumen (or where from a business representative organisation, the views of their members) to provide creativity and challenge to the development and deployment of local and national initiatives deployed to promote growth, investment, regeneration and economic inclusion across Lancashire
  • bring personal skills, knowledge, insights and expertise from individual experience, companies, sectors and projects, whilst acting collectively to represent the totality of the Lancashire economy
  • develop plans and projects alongside local government, illustrating that the strategies and projects being put forward as priorities for Lancashire have a broad base of support

The Lancashire Business Board is made up of 17 members from leading businesses and organisations from all across Lancashire:

Board MemberOrganisation
Graham BaldwinUniversity of Central Lancashire
Miranda BarkerEast Lancashire Chamber
John ChesworthHarrison Drury
Jane ColeBlackpool Transport Service and North West Lancashire Chamber
Tim ConlonTerberg Environmental
Dave HolmesBAE Systems
Jeremy HartleyEric Wright Group
Zuber IssaEG Group
Mo IsapIN4.0 Group Limited
Babs MurphyNorth and Western Lancashire Chamber of Commerce
Mark RawstronInvestment Director
Kate ShaneBlackpool Leisure Portfolio
Steve WilliamsForce Technology
Rachel WestrayWestinghouse
Tim WebberBarnfield
Lauren ZawadskiDeco Publique