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New Chair for Advantage West Midlands
Business Secretary Lord Mandelson today announced the appointment of Sir Roy McNulty as the new Chair of Advantage West Midlands (AWM).
The appointment will initially be until December 2012 and the remuneration is £80,510 for a time commitment of 3 days per week.
Lord Mandelson said:
""I am delighted to appoint Sir Roy McNulty as the new Chair of Advantage West Midlands. Sir Roy's experience in business will be vital as AWM takes a lead role in steering the West Midlands economy through this difficult period."
Sir Roy McNulty will be appointed Chair designate for a period of three months prior to taking up the appointment, working closely with the current Chair to ensure continuity within the RDA at this critical time. He will take up the post of Chair on 1st September 2009.
Lord Mandelson praised the contribution of the outgoing Chair Nick Paul, Chair of Advantage West Midlands:
"Throughout his six years in the role, Nick Paul has worked tirelessly for the benefit of the region helping to steer it through some difficult times, including through his chairmanship of the MG Rover Task Force. His enthusiasm and passion for improving the economic prosperity of the West Midlands region has consistently shone through his work as Chair of AWM".
Ian Austin MP, Minister for the West Midlands region said:
"I am delighted at the appointment of Sir Roy McNulty and I look forward to working as closely with him as I have with Nick Paul.
"We've got a huge amount of work to do. The recession may have been caused in the US, but it's having a real impact here in the West Midlands and AWM's work has never been more important as we provide real help for families in the region and the businesses on whom they depend for their jobs.
"And we've got to remain focused on make the longer term changes we need to make to the region's economy by boosting skills, improving the transport network, building the new homes families need, developing trading links with other countries and investing in the new low carbon and high-tech manufacturing sectors that will provide the highly-skilled and well-paid jobs that the region's prosperity will depend upon in the future."
Notes to Editors
1. The appointment has been made in accordance with the Commissioner for Public Appointments Code of Practice. All appointments are made on merit and political activity plays no part in the selection process. However, in accordance with the original Nolan Recommendations there is a requirement for appointees' political activity to be made public. Sir Roy McNulty has not declared any political activity.
Other public appointments and remuneration:
2. Sir Roy McNulty currently holds two other public appointments :
Deputy Chairman of the Olympic Development Authority with remuneration at the rate of £1,000 per day spent on ODA business and Chair of ILEX URC Ltd - the urban regeneration company for Derry - Londonderry, with a remuneration of £800.00 per day spent on ILEX business.
BIOGRAPHY
3. Sir Roy McNulty was appointed Chairman of the Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) with effect from September 2001, by the Secretary of State for Transport. The CAA is responsible for the regulation of civil aviation in the United Kingdom, covering aviation safety, economic regulation, consumer protection, and airspace policy and planning. The CAA is also the Government's statutory advisor on civil aviation matters.
Prior to this appointment to the CAA, Sir Roy was Executive Chairman of National Air Traffic Services Ltd (NATS) from 1999 to 2001. His principal role with NATS was to lead the company through the process of establishing a Public Private Partnership (PPP) - a process which was completed with the establishment in July 2001 of a PPP between the Government and a group of UK airlines.
Born in County Donegal, Ireland in November 1937, Roy McNulty qualified as a Chartered Accountant in Scotland. Between 1963 and 1966, he worked with Peat Marwick Mitchell in Glasgow; with Chrysler UK at Linwood for two years until 1968; with Harland and Wolff in Belfast for eight years until 1976; and as a management consultant with Peat Marwick Mitchell in Belfast until 1978 when he joined Shorts Brothers as Director of Finance and Administration. He was appointed Managing Director and Chief Executive of Shorts, the Belfast-based aerospace company, in 1988.
Following the privatisation of Shorts and its acquisition by Bombardier Inc. in 1989, he became President of the Shorts Group - the European counterpart of Bombardier's North American Aerospace Group and a Corporate Officer of Bombardier. In that role, he led Shorts through a major programme of change which transformed Shorts from a loss-making Government-owned company into one of the UK's leading manufacturing success stories.
When the two aerospace groups were combined in May 1996 to form Bombardier Aerospace, Roy McNulty was appointed Chairman of Shorts Brothers plc. He was knighted in 1998. Between 1993 and 1994 he was President of the Society of British Aerospace Companies, and he was Chairman of the Department of Trade and Industry Aviation Committee from 1995 to 1998. Today, in addition to his CAA responsibilities, he is Deputy Chairman of the London 2012 Olympic Delivery Authority, having previously been Acting Chairman, and was appointed Chairman of ILEX in October 2007. He is also a Vice President of the Engineering Employers' Federation and a director of several other companies.
He is married, with one son and two daughters, and lives in the Cotswolds.
