Paul Deehan

 

Trustee

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Paul has over 30 years' experience as a Chartered Accountant, initially training, qualifying, and working in practice with KPMG. This was followed by 13 years at United Utilities PLC, where he performed several roles including Head of Investor Relations and Finance Director of its property business. For the last 15 years he has been a Senior Director at Turley, the town planning and development consultancy business. His role there has overseen teams supporting finance, credit control, IT, property, business development and marketing, HR, and graphic design. He has also led the company’s commercial activities around funding, contracts insurance, as well as its quality management (ISO9001) and environmental (ISO14001) systems. 

 

Paul has extensive experience working with boards, as well as leadership and operational management teams in utilities, construction, property development and management, and professional consultancy services.  He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales (ICAEW) and of the Institute of Directors (IoD).

 

Paul is passionate about sharing his skills and experience. In addition to this role, he volunteers for Be the Board as a company advisor to small and medium-sized entrepreneurial businesses and he mentors business people one-to-one as part of their individual development programmes. 

 

Paul joined the ELT Board of Trustees so he could provide input from his financial and commercial experience and to assist the Trust to grow successfully as an organisation, whilst maintaining and developing its financial resilience. 

 

Term of Appointment:

 

11 October 2023 - 10 October 2027

 

Appointed by:

 

Trust Board

 

Trustee area(s) of responsibility:

 

Chair of the Audit and Risk Committee

 

Declaration of Business and / or Financial interests:

 

None