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Chris Gill our principal consultant is a successful Chartered Management Consultancy Surveyor and Interim Manager with extensive public and private sector experience. Key achievements include the groundbreaking Buildings for Business Public Private Partnership and establishing NewcastleGateshead CDC (now 1NG) as a private sector led company with a high powered Chair Board and Chief Executive with the ability to operate in partnership with public sector shareholders within a framework of governance focused on delivery and results. Chris graduated from Sheffield City Polytechnic in 1983 with a degree in Urban Land Economics and in 2003 gained an MBA from Teesside University. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors and a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute. He has also completed the Interpersonal Relationships in Organisations Programme at the internationally renowned Roffey Park Leadership Institute. Chris spent his early career in manufacturing and retail with The Edinburgh Woollen Mill Ltd where he was responsible for all group operational and investment properties. He has worked in the public sector since 1990 in a variety of delivery and strategic roles in Local Government, English Partnerships and One NorthEast. Effective operating at Chief Officer and Board level notable successes include the development and delivery of the groundbreaking Buildings for Business Public Private Partnership and establishing NewcastleGateshead CDC (now 1NG) as a private sector led company with a high powered Chair Board and Chief Executive with the ability to operate in partnership with public sector shareholders within a framework of governance focused on delivery and results. Since setting up J C Gill and Co Ltd Chris has worked on a number of major public sector assignments and advised a range of private and voluntary sector clients on a range of issues relating to their bidding and partnerships with public bodies. He has worked as a consultant and interim manager with local authorities, LEPs, Combined Authorities, Inward Investment agenices, Universities and Colleges on value for money and service reviews, transformation programmes, strategy development, project and programme delivery, asset optimisation and procurement projects. Chris has over 25 years experience in transforming the delivery of public services, public private partnerships, complex procurement projects, asset management, planning and development, economic development and regeneration, programme and project management and corporate policy and strategy. With a highly flexible and engaging approach he has developed a successful track record helping public and private sector clients achieve cashable savings and improvements in their effectiveness and efficiency by applying his business skills and property knowledge to optimise asset efficiency and transform public service delivery. Valued as a skilled negotiator with a people focus and an ability to empathise he is politically astute and trustworthy with strong personal and professional ethics. Recognised as an innovator with bags of common sense Chris does not always take a conventional approach in driving change, improving outcomes and delivering complex projects and programmes in challenging political and multi agency environments. Currently undertaking assignments and providing consultancy services within Local Government, LEPs, and Combined Authorities Chris is acknowledged for his ability to support political and executive leaders and motivate professional teams during periods of transformational change.