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Latest News - 16 February 2010


NEW CEO FOR TADEA

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TADEA Limited has appointed Paul Jackson as its new chief executive officer. 

The appointment follows a year of rapid growth for the company, which now employs 40 staff at its offices in Billingham, Newcastle, Carlisle and Blackburn. 

Mr Jackson, 51, is well known in Teesside business circles, having set up and run a number of successful companies, particularly in the printing and retail industries, and later holding several senior positions with public sector and regeneration organisations in the area. 

Middlesbrough born and bred, he has chosen to live and work in the area all his life. He went to Brookside Secondary Modern School and on to Middlesbrough High School to complete his ‘O’ levels. He had to leave school at 16 against his will and immediately began an apprenticeship in printing, becoming the top apprentice for the North East of England in his year group on qualifying in 1979. 

In 1981, at the tender age of 22, he and his wife, Carol, set up their own printing company based in Middlesbrough. They successfully grew this company by expansion and acquisition to the point where, in 1988, ill health forced a decision to sell up and move into something less physically demanding. The company was still trading some 20 years later.  

He joined Barclays Bank on the financial services side, quickly moving up the ladder to be assessed and approved for group manager status. Unfortunately, a serious accident at home in 1994 resulted in major spinal surgery, permanent disability and adverse health consequences, as well as more than five years off work.  

The Jacksons had retail business interests which they developed over the years. This led in 1999 to links with a community which utilised Mr Jackson’s skills as a businessman, communicator and negotiator on a purely voluntary basis.  He was asked to take a seat on the interim board of the £52m West Middlesbrough New Deal for Communities government initiative in 2000.

This led to a position as the private sector representative director when the interim board became the board for the West Middlesbrough Neighbourhood Trust, an organisation Mr Jackson was instrumental in setting up the constitutional documents for.  He was also instrumental in the setting up of the West Middlesbrough Business Forum, became its deputy chairman and steered it to well over 250 active members within its first year of existence.

At this time Mr Jackson became an active and committed member of the North East Chamber of Commerce and Federation of Small Business, both at regional and more local levels. These areas of activity resulted in him being asked to represent the North East of England on a working group jointly chaired by the then Prime Minister, Tony Blair, and Deputy Prime Minister, John Prescott.

Mr Jackson became extremely interested and active in policy development, especially where it impacted on his native North East, and helped develop the national Neighbourhood Management Programme; Community Interest Companies Policy; Local Enterprise Growth Initiative and a variety of other regeneration initiatives, schemes and policy developments. 

Out of this interest, he became the first national Neighbourhood Manager in 2002, as deputy to the programme director for West Middlesbrough New Deal for Communities, and later acted up for nearly a year as programme director for the same nationally recognised and highly commended initiative. 

In 2003 he accepted the post of Commerce Manager at Renew Tees Valley Limited, developing and delivering new business growth, business expansion, inward investment and job creation within the renewable energy, waste management and recycling sectors.  

Mr Jackson then set up yet another business, One Cool Planet Company, a management consultancy which specialised in interim management services alongside other environmental related consultancy services.

He was already a committed non-executive director and board member for a number of local and national organisations, including TADEA Limited, Nature’s World and Middlesbrough Environment City, locally.  He was asked to take on the role of interim CEO at TADEA to lead the company through a period of intensive change, and then from April 2009 to develop the position until its intended introduction as a permanent position from April this year. He was offered and accepted the position of permanent CEO this month. 

Mr Jackson said: “With the support of the superbly talented staff and forward thinking board of directors at TADEA, and having been involved at Board and Operational levels in seeing the company through its formative years, I am looking forward to leading a well positioned company with a national profile through its next exciting period of development as a serious and sustainable organisation over the next ten to 15 years before my retirement.”

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