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Alex Gourlay was appointed Chief Executive of the Health & Beauty Division and a member of the Board of Directors of Alliance Boots GmbH in January 2009. He is also Managing Director of Boots UK, with responsibility for Health & Beauty.

In September 2008 Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas was appointed Chairman of the New West End Company. In this role she plays a key part in managing and promoting the interests of the district and leading the organisation’s retailer and property owner Strategic Board developing and driving forward the commercial opportunities for the world’s top shopping destination, London’s West End.

Ian Fletcher is the British Property Federation’s Director of Policy for Real Estate. Ian’s brief at the BPF covers a wide range of housing, development and landlord and tenant issues.

As Head of the NSA, Jane is responsible for establishing a network of up to 70 retail skills shops offering world class training for the retail sector.

Jeremy has over 25 years of experience in property. Having graduated from Reading University with a degree in Land Management he spent his formative years in the Economic Development Unit of Wirral Borough Council.