Date: 2008-05-12
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Today, Mary Reilly, Chair of the London Development Agency (LDA) Board, and Manny Lewis, Chief Executive of the London Development Agency, have been asked to step down from their roles. The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson will nominate Harvey McGrath as the Interim Chair of the LDA and recommend Peter Rogers as the Interim Chief Executive.
(Media-Newswire.com) - Today, Mary Reilly, Chair of the London Development Agency (LDA) Board, and Manny Lewis, Chief Executive of the London Development Agency, have been asked to step down from their roles.
The Mayor of London, Boris Johnson will nominate Harvey McGrath as the Interim Chair of the LDA and recommend Peter Rogers as the Interim Chief Executive.
Commenting on this, the Mayor of London, said: “I was elected on a very clear mandate of providing value for money for London taxpayers. It starts here with the London Development Agency. Harvey McGrath has served as vice chair of the new London Skills and Employment Board since its inception and is a prominent figure in the capital’s business community. He has unrivalled knowledge of business and of skills and employability issues in London. He is supremely qualified to get the most out of this vital London organisation.
“Peter Rogers has a proven track record of delivering in Westminster and his experience in reducing costs and implementing transparency is exactly what the LDA needs to start delivering for taxpayers with immediate effect.
“I’m delighted to recommend Harvey and Peter to act as interim heads while we launch open searches for the best qualified long term leaders who can get the best out of the LDA in years to come.”
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Harvey McGrath
As well as Chairman of London First, the capital’s influential business campaign group, Harvey McGrath is Vice Chair of the Mayor of London's Skills and Employment Board, responsible for the adult skills strategy in London, and a director of Gateway to London, the inward investment agency for the Thames Gateway.
Harvey McGrath is the former Chairman of Man Group plc, the London-based FTSE 100 fund manager and futures broker. He retired from the Man Board in November 2007, having been appointed Chairman in March 2000 and previously Chief Executive in 1990. He joined Man in 1980 from Chase Manhattan Bank. Harvey has an MA in Geography from St Catherine’s College, Cambridge.
He is also an active philanthropist supporting a range of causes around deprivation, education, and divided communities. Harvey is Chairman of the East London Business Alliance, a partnership of substantial businesses engaged in the social and economic regeneration of East London. He is a founding donor and trustee of New Philanthropy Capital, a research based charity which gives guidance and advice to donors; a trustee of Charity Technology Trust, which is focused on helping the charitable sector more effectively use information technology; a business governor of Tower Hamlets College, a further education institution; and a trustee of the Royal Anniversary Trust which operates the Queen’s Anniversary Prizes for Higher and Further Education.
Peter Rogers
Peter has operated at the highest levels in both the Public and Private sectors and has been involved with change management for over 20 years. Although originally an Accountant, he also has extensive experience of Industrial Relations and Logistics and has initiated major changes throughout his career in Business Planning and Performance Management.
Peter is the former Chief Executive of the City of Westminster, having been employed by the council for over 10 years. Westminster is a billion pound business dealing with a wide and complex range of services touching all ages of the community from Schools to Social services and impacting on the image and economic well being of the City through quality of life issues through to economic development. Peter has been at the forefront of delivering improvement in services. He has seen Westminster re-establish its reputation as a Council that delivers good quality services and as one that is rapidly improving them through a combination of cultural change and innovation.
Before that Peter was involved with the Transport industry for over 15 years. He was part of the management team leading an employee buy out and became Managing Director of a £250 million turnover Bus subsidiary with full Profit and Loss accountability for several years before being promoted to Commercial Director of a group of subsidiaries following a merger It was this period that confirmed Peter’s commitment to providing high quality services at sensible prices as the key to customer satisfaction and loyalty, a situation, which is now directly relevant to Local Government.