social enterprise

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• Social Enterprise East Midlands (Seem) has appointed a new chair and vice chair. New chair David Brazier is the current chief executive of social enterprise Stride, and a member of the Cabinet Office’s expert panel on business advice for social enterprise. Chris Mahon, newly-elected vice chair of Seem, has helped set up several businesses, including Thirdkey Enterprise Solutions, and lectures on social entrepreneurship at Nottingham University Business School.

• Julia Ellis will next month step down as chief executive of Made, the architecture centre for the Midlands, to pursue new ventures. David Tittle, current head of design excellence, will take over as interim chief executive.

• The Northern Housing Consortium has appointed Jo Boaden as chief executive. Ms Boaden joins from her role as director of information at Business Enterprise North East and will start the new post in October. She will succeed John Moralee who is retiring after more than 30 years at the helm of the consortium.

• Vince Lucas has become the new chair of regeneration partnership Ashford’s Future. The service delivery director for Southeastern railway, Mr Lucas has been an Ashford’s Future company board member since the company launched in spring last year. Former chair Robyn Pyle stepped down to take up a role in the new Government Property Unit, but will remain a director of Ashford’s Future.

• David Grady has been appointed chief financial officer of Midlands Co-operative Society. Most recently head of finance at Tarmac, he succeeds Martyn Cheatle who took up the position of chief executive at Midlands Co-operative Society earlier this year.

• Glyn Jones is the new chair of Pennaf Housing Group. Mr Jones joined the management board of Clwyd Alyn Housing Association - part of the Pennaf Group - in 2001 and became chair of Clwyd Alyn in 2006. He has stood down from Clwyd Alyn to take on the new Pennaf Group role.