Great executive team at pro.manchester

Following the appointment of John Ashcroft in late 2009 and the re-organisation of the executive team shortly after the first half of 2010 brought a few changes to team pro.manchester as they bade some fond farewells and welcomed some new team members into the fold.

In April pro.manchester welcomed Adele Edgar as Skills and Education Manager, formerly of Business Link North West and GMSA Adele was well placed to lead on pro.manchester’s strategic commitment to strengthen links between professional services and academica and has developed the Skills and Education programme at pro.manchester to become stronger than ever before.


May saw pro.manchester bidding goodbye to Val Jones after ten years of service and welcoming two new members of staff in Robina Williams as Business Development Executive and Nicola Mortimer as Events and Conference Manager. Robina is  responsible for developing and growing our existing membership base and working closely with decision makers in organisations to promote the benefits of pro.manchester.

Nicola is responsible for co-ordinating the pro.manchester events programme including Key Events such as the Annual Dinner, The Annual Lecture, The Chairman’s Reception and next year the first Business and Professional Services Conference. Nicola is also responsible for the business lunch programme and City Walk’s and has most recently been behind the Innovation and  Enterprise Workshop Programme.

The rest of the executive team remains unchanged with Rachel Smith as Deputy Chief Executive, Sam Booth as manager of the future pro.manchester programme of activity, Rachel Tetlow as Membership Manager, Natalie Asprey as Communications Manager and Pat Heald as Finance Manager.