ONE of the most influential men in York has been appointed a non-executive director of Business Link Yorkshire.
He is John Yeomans, senior partner of York solicitor Harrowells, who last year received the Lifetime Achievement Award in The Press Business Awards.
Mr Yeoman’s appointment to the free business support organisation comes just as he is about to retire.
His involvement within the business community of the city and his experience in galvanizing business in the region are seen as invaluable to the Business Link board.
His many duties include chairman of the new Visit York organisation, which has welded all the stakeholders of the city’s tourism into one fighting force; chairman of Ron Hills Memorial Trust; the inward investment organisation Yorkengland.co; and of York Professional Initiative, now known as York Professionals.
He is also a trustee of York Against Cancer, on the strategy board of Science City York, a board member of Venturefest York, a member of York Business Education Forum and the Yorkshire Forward Objective 2 Performance Management Group, and president of the York Conservatives Patrons’ Club.
At The Press Business Awards last year, Mr Yeomans was described as “a man in the phalanx of the fight to expand tourism, lure in new businesses and present the image of York as a city where its professional community is every bit as good as London’s or Leeds”.
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