Board of governors
Sandy Anderson OBE DL FREng, Chairman
Formerly Senior Vice-President, Technology, ICI; Deputy Lieutenant of County Durham; Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and the Institution of Chemical Engineers; Director of the Centre for Process Innovation; Chairman, DigitalCity; Governor, Durham School; Chairman, Tees Valley Local Enterprise Partnership (TVLEP).
Robin Bloom
Group General Counsel The Gibson O’Neill Company Ltd; former senior partner, Dickinson Dees; former Chair CBI North East.
Paul Booth
President, SABIC-UK Petrochemicals; former Vice President of Huntsman Petrochemicals UK; ICI Teesside Sites Engineering Manager; Deputy chairman of NASPI (National skills academy for the process sector); Director of TTE (Apprentice and adult training college); Deputy chairman of NEPIC (north eastern process cluster); Board member of the CIA (chemical industry association); former chairman of Redcar and Cleveland college.
Alison Clark-Jenkins
Director, North East – Arts Council England.
Bob Cuffe
Regional Managing Director, Trinity Mirror North East. Advisory Council, Teesside University Business School.
Chris Fleetwood
Chairman, Darlington Building Society; Chairman, Digital City Business; Non Executive Director, Northern 3 Venture Capital Trust Plc; Non Executive Director NCFE Limited; Managing Partner, io solutions; Formerly Chief Executive, Whessoe Plc.
Professor Tricia Hart
Deputy Chief Executive / Director of Nursing and Patient Safety, South Tees NHS Foundation Trust; Honorary Associate of North East Leadership Academy.
David Heaton OBE
Former Principal Queen Elizabeth Sixth Form College, Darlington; Board Member, Darlington LSP; Chair, Darlington 14-19 Partnership; Chair, The Work Place (Aycliffe) Ltd; Chair, Age Concern, Darlington; Board Member, Humantics Community Interest Group.
Professor Graham Henderson CBE DL
Vice-Chancellor and Chief Executive of Teesside University. Trustee of Captain Cook Birthplace Trust; Board Member UniversitiesUK; Council Member North East CBI; Regional Executive Member of the North East Chamber of Commerce; Member North East Public Health Board; Chair Tees Valley Common Purpose; Chair Leadership Foundation for Higher Education Membership Advisory Group;
Council Member Council for Industry in Higher Education; Member HEFCE Strategic Advisory Group;
Member HEFCE Strategic Advisory Committee on Leadership, Governance and Management; UniversitiesUK Employability, Business and Industry Policy Network; Leadership Board Tees Valley Unlimited
John Hogg
Former Principal, Middlesbrough College.
John Irwin
Director of Storeys: SSP; Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors; Vice Chair of North East Chamber Of Commerce, Trade and Industry Ltd; Trustee of Tees Valley Community Foundation; Formerly President of the North East Chamber of Commerce and Chair of Tees Valley Tomorrow.
Sue Kiddle
Consultant and Director of Advantage Business Coaching Ltd. Performance coach, mentor and senior business leader in the service sector. Former Area Corporate Director at Barclays in the North East.
Alastair MacColl, Vice-Chairman
Chief Executive Business & Enterprise North East; Chair of Teesside University Business School Advisory Council; Leadership Board of Tees Valley Unlimited; formerly Managing Director, Gazette Media Company.
Dr Terry Murphy
Senior Lecturer, School of Health & Social Care, Teesside University; Branch Chair and Regional Secretary (HE), University and College Union.
Sean Price
Chief Constable, Cleveland Police.
Keith Robinson
Partner, Vantis plc; Trustee, Tees Valley Community Foundation.
Beverly Simpson
Deputy Director (Department for Learning and Development), Teesside University; Governor, Oakfield Community College.
Dr Mark Simpson
Dean, School of Social Sciences & Law, Teesside University; Vice Chair, Board of Governors, Parkend Primary School Member of the Corporation, Prior Pursglove College Member of Safer Middlesbrough's Responsible Authorities Group Director and Executive Committee member, British Society of Criminology Executive Board member, Tees Valley Leisure Ltd
Amanda Skelton
Chief Executive, Redcar and Cleveland Borough Council; Director, Safe in Tees Valley; member of the Regional Council of Prince's Trust.
Alison Thain OBE
Chief Executive of Fabrick Housing Group; Fellow of the Chartered Institute
of Housing; Member of the Tees Valley Partnership; Member of One North East Board, Regeneration Committee and Ignite Board.
Lori Wheatman
President of Teesside University Students' Union.
