Liverpool Vision chairman Sir Joe Dwyer and chief executive Jim Gill will take central roles in the ongoing merger process involving
Dwyer has been named as the chair of a 17-member transitional board that will oversee the merger of urban regeneration company Liverpool Vision, Liverpool Land Development Company (LLDC) and Business Liverpool.
Meanwhile, Gill will chair a “management group”, which will advise the transitional board.
Mike Taylor, chief executive of Business Liverpool and David Waugh, outgoing chief executive of LLDC, will sit alongside Gill on the management group.
The transitional board will meet regularly to oversee the production of a “strategic plan” and the formation of the new company.
As revealed by Estates Gazette last month, the transitional board will be formed in the first week of April, while the new company will be fully in place within a year.
Dwyer said: “I am determined that over the coming months we will put in place a sound basis for the new chair and chief executive so that the new organisation can hit the ground running.”
The merger of the three bodies is the brainchild of Warren Bradley, leader of
Bradley has bemoaned the loss in recent years of major inward investors, such as Norwich Union and Swiss Life, blaming the lack of a central city-wide contact point.
He told EGi the new company would be tasked with “capturing, incubating and sustaining” inward investment.
The chair of the merged company will be announced in the summer, while the chief executive will be appointed in the autumn.
Bradley said there would be a “fair and open application process” for the role of chief executive of the new company.
The official name of the company, which has been nicknamed “Liverpool plc”, has yet to be decided.
Bradley ruled out Liverpool plc as a permanent name and hinted that the company may simply be called Liverpool Development Company.
Other transitional board members include
