Nigel TomlinsonBill AdamsBill Adams is the Regional Secretary of the Yorkshire and Humber TUC, prior to which he worked as the TUC Education Officer for 5 years. Bill has been a trade union activist for most of his working life, having worked in the public and private sectors, holding membership of different trade unions throughout his career. In 1990, he returned to University to read Law, and later Industrial Relations and Labour Law at postgraduate level. Bill is passionate about the region, and is currently an executive member of the Yorkshire and Humber Assembly, he serves on the executive of the ACAS Employee Relations Forum, is a member of the Work and Skills Board in Sheffield; and a member of the board which promotes ESF funding in the region. He is also a governor of his former University. He lists his many interests as his family, international issues and sport. Mohammed DajaniMohammed Dajani was appointed Centre Director of Meadowhall in 1995. He joined the management team as Tenant Co-ordinator in 1991, progressing to Premises Manager in 1992. His association with Meadowhall, however, began years before. As an architect with Chapman Taylor Partnership, Mohammed worked on the original design of Meadowhall Centre. Mohammed received his architectural training at the University of Studies in Florence where he graduated in 1977. Palestinian-born, Mohammed worked as an architect in Qatar, before moving to England in 1989 with his wife and three daughters. Since this time he has made Sheffield his home. Mohammed is a Director of British Land Corporation Limited and a Governor of Sheffield Hallam University. He was previously a Director of Sheffield First for 3 years from March 2000 to March 2003. Outside work, his interests include reading - history being a favourite subject. Not surprisingly, Mohammed also has a love of foreign culture and travel rates highly among his list of interests. Tony TweedyTony Tweedy is the Senior Manager: Regeneration and Development in the Education Directorate. During a career working in both schools and FE he has taught every age group from 11 to 65 and at every level from Basic Skills to degrees. In this period he held a variety of management posts relating to curriculum development, Quality Assurance and the organisation of Adult and Community Learning for 9,000 students across the city. Programme innovation, multi-agency collaboration and strategies to align learning with the wider aims of social and economic regeneration are themes that have featured prominently in his career and this continues in his current post. For the last two and a half years has responsibility in the LEA for 14-19 policy including the development of the Sheffield Apprenticeship, the adult learning and skills strategy and partnership working with LSC SY, the management of external funding including Objective 1 and other, learning-related, external resources and employment policy including joint working with Jobcentre Plus. He is the lead officer for Sheffield First for Work and a board member of Sheffield First for Learning where he chairs the Community Based Learning group. Colin Beresford Customer Director, Taylor Woodrow |
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Jenny CavalotExecutive Director for Human Resources, Sheffield Care Trust Andrew CoulthardExecutive Director, VC Train John FarmerA graduate in biological science, John qualified as a teacher and worked for 25 years in Further Education as a lecturer and later as a manager. For the last six years of this time he was responsible for learning provision for employers and for community provision delivered under franchise by voluntary sector providers. This experience led him to make a move into the voluntary and community sector and, since 2000, John has held several roles relating to skill development in the community and in the third sector workforce. Having lived and worked in Derbyshire since 1978, John’s connection with Sheffield began five years ago when he joined Voluntary Action Sheffield. Since his arrival John has played an active part in Sheffield First, first through ACLAB and, more recently, as a member of the Work and Skills Board. John is also a member of the Board of VC Train. John BradleyJohn Bradley has worked for Kier Group and its antecedents for 38 years in a wide variety of roles, and was a member of the Employee Buy Out of Kier from Hanson in 1994. He has technical and managerial experience of delivering schemes for Roads, Bridges, Tunnels, Hospitals, Marine Works, Railway station refurbishment, Civil Engineering works to power stations and Housing Maintenance both in the UK, the Middle east and Africa. John has masterminded the evolution of Kier Building Maintenance and is directly involved in ensuring the closest co-ordination of best practice across the various schemes running nationally. John sits on Kier Group Steering Committees for Safety and Environment, and Defence. In addition, John also chairs the Task Group for Sustainability in the Construction Industry in the East of England – sponsored by OPDM (G-East), East of England Regional Assembly and Sustainability Round Table for the East of England. He also chairs Sheffield City Council’s Work and Skills Board and sits on the Steering Committee for Constructing Excellence for the East of England. Ann JacksonSouth Yorkshire District Manager, Job Centre Plus |