11 February 2008

CPR Regeneration appoints new board members

CPR Regeneration, the urban regeneration company for Camborne, Pool and Redruth, has strengthened its board with the appointment of three new board members.

Sarah Trethowan, from Mithian, near St Agnes, is a director and co-owner of Cornwall-based TRAC Services, a consultancy business providing regulatory services to the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries which is based on the Tolvaddon Energy Park near Camborne.

Sarah has a background in marketing and communications and her family moved to Redruth when she was a teenager.

Chris McMellon, who has lived in Cornwall since 1985, is an experienced company secretary and in-house legal director who has worked at a senior level for several major UK, US and European corporations.

He has extensive legal, financial, HR and corporate management Skills and has worked in the mining, aircraft, telecommunications, food, paper manufacturing and construction industries.

He is currently group corporate secretary for AerCap NV, an aircraft ownership and leasing company based in the Netherlands and Ireland. Christopher has previously worked as assistant group secretary for a subsidiary of Rio Tinto Zinc, specialising in tin and coal mining, quarrying and property development.

The final appointment is Theo Leijser, who joined the South West of England Regional Development Agency (RDA) in November as the RDA's new Area Director for Cornwall and the isles of Scilly.

Theo will replace Stephen Bohane, former head of operations for the RDA in Cornwall and now head of business development, on the CPR board. Stephen will now serve on the CPR Business Forum, which is a board sub group aiming to step up business
engagement in the community.

Theo is the former chief executive of Forward Scotland, the leading independent sustainable development organisation in Scotland, and spent more than five years working for the Strathclyde European Partnership on a range of social and economic regeneration projects.

David Brewer, chairman of CPR Regeneration, said: "These new appointments bring considerable breadth and depth to our board in both the private and public sector and I'm delighted to welcome Sarah, Christopher and Theo.

"I'd also like to pay tribute to our outgoing board members Barbara Ellenbroek, Richard Leonard and Stephen Bohane, all of whom have made a valuable contribution to the development of our comprehensive regeneration plans for the Camborne, Pool and Redruth area."

Board member posts are unpaid and run for a period of three years and a maximum of six years. Board members drawn from CPR Regeneration's funding partners have a permanent seat on the board.