Decision details

Appointment of Interim Managing Director & Appointment and Removal Of Non-Executive Directors

Decision Maker: Shareholder Committee (Cabinet Committee)

Decision status: Recommendations Approved

Is Key decision?: No

Is subject to call in?: Yes

Purpose:

Reserved matters decision. Shareholder Committee to appoint 2 new directors to sit on the Enterprise Oxfordshire Board.

Decisions:

The Shareholder Committee received a report outlining personnel changes in respect of the appointment and removal of non-Executive Directors; and the appointment of an Interim Managing Director, given the Chief Executive of Enterprise Oxfordshire had left his post at the end of September.

 

Councillor Ben Higgins, Cabinet Member for Future Economy and Innovation, introduced the report.

 

During discussion, it was noted that there was an intention to co-opt members from Oxfordshire Economy Partnership Board.

 

Councillor Higgins proposed and Councillor Leffman seconded the recommendations, and they were approved.

 

RESOLVED to:

 

a) Remove Kate Reynolds as a Non-Executive Director of Enterprise Oxfordshire.

 

b) Appoint Ian Dyson (Director of Financial and Commercial Services) and Kim Sawyer (Programme Director, Devolution) to the position of Non-Executive Director of Enterprise Oxfordshire.

 

c) Note that it is the intention of the Board to co-opt a member of the Oxfordshire Economy Partnership Board.

 

d) Appoint Nicholas Glover to the role of Interim Managing Director.  

Report author: Sadie Patamia

Publication date: 13/11/2025

Date of decision: 13/11/2025

Decided at meeting: 13/11/2025 - Shareholder Committee (Cabinet Committee)

Effective from: 19/11/2025

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