Chamber appoints a chief executive
9 July 2009
The Chamber of Shipping has appointed Angus Frew as chief executive tasked with leading and managing a review and transformation process to ensure the Chamber is equipped, structurally and financially, to meet the challenges of the long-term future and to deliver ‘value for money’ for member companies.
Angus Frew is the former President and CEO of GE SeaCo, a container leasing company. In this capacity, he also served as chairman of the Institute of International Container Lessors and a director of the Container Owners’ Association.
“This appointment responds to the same exceptional pressures that all businesses are facing during the economic downturn,” said Jesper Kjaedegaard, Chamber President. “Our intention is both to plan – innovatively – for the future and to maintain the current strong policy and lobbying capability, which is the Chamber’s trade-mark product for its members.”
“Angus Frew will lead this transformation process and his appointment will allow Mark Brownrigg, the director-general, to continue to focus on policy and communications activity during the change process.”
ENDS
For further information please contact Claire Sneddon on
020 7417 2888 and 07951 934851
or claire.sneddon@british-shipping.org
Outline of responsibilities:
Chief executive
• Measures to reduce costs and/or increase revenue
• Strategy for Chamber taking account of emerging One Voice initiative
• Chamber structure including Board and committees
• Level of subscription and other income – attracting new members and/or introducing other initiatives
• Return on Chamber’s property portfolio
• Value to membership and customer satisfaction
• Succession plans for key managers – ensuring key staff properly coached for future
• Corporate governance and staff arrangements
Director-general
• Lead the Chamber’s policy and communications functions and to be the spokesman for the Chamber in these areas
• Political activity in the lead-up to a new Parliament
• Industry responses to regulation at national, EU, and international levels
• In particular, lead the key campaigns for fiscal and business certainty for shipping in the UK and a global and open emissions trading scheme as shipping way to respond positively to climate change
• Partnerships with other sectors, including particularly within the One Voice initiative.