Ron Pinfield, New Chair of CECA Midlands

I am very proud to become the new Chair of CECA Midlands and look forward to driving on the organisation over the next two years.

I have to thank Nigel Drew for his leadership of the organisation over the past three years, which has been a hugely challenging term for him with the arrival of COVID-19 and national lockdowns.

Despite all of the adversity we’ve faced as an industry – and indeed as a country – Nigel and the team have helped to lay extremely solid foundations as I take up this role.

As Nigel said at our AGM, the people and the businesses in this sector do incredible work and face up to new challenges every day. We never shy away from them and always come up with solutions to ensure we get the job done.

That is what we have all had to do in the past couple of years and I proud of the work CECA Midlands has done to help our members right across the region.

My ambition for my tenure is to support the delivery of a bigger and dynamic service from CECA, to continue to support industry as it evolves and as it continues to deals with external factors such as current world events.

The COVID-19 restrictions have gone, but we are now faced with new challenges that affect us all on a day-to-day basis. I want us all to work together as we face up to those challenges head-on.

I would also like to welcome Lorraine Gregory as Director of CECA Midlands. Lorraine has only been in the role a matter of weeks but she has already been out meeting members, finding out their issues and their ‘asks’ of us as an organisation to help support them over the coming months and years.

The success of our sector is a great barometer for the whole of the economy and we will be working hard with all our members to make sure we build on the foundations that have been laid over recent years.