LSIP Steering Group

Louise Punter

Louise Punter became Chief Executive of Surrey Chambers of Commerce following 17 years working in manufacturing and business services. After a 5 year career break from Metal Box, she then spent 3 years as the Marketing Director of an international conformity assessment organisation, Bureau Veritas.

To ensure strong representation of Surrey businesses, Louise sits on many different boards and committees such as the One Surrey Growth Board, the Civilian-Military Partnership Board, Surrey Skills Leadership Forum and is involved in both Local Enterprise Partnerships (EM3 and Coast to Capital).

Jamie Mackay

Jamie is the Project Manager for the LSIP project, supporting the delivery of the priorities and recommendations from the LSIP report. Jamie has over two decades of experience in the skills arena, with a common thread of helping individuals to make informed career choices. He recognises the changing requirements of the labour market but also the needs and expectations from the talent pipeline.

Alongside this role, Jamie is also a Skills Strategy Manager at Hampshire County Council and the Project Manager for the Local Skills Improvement Fund project in a collaboration of education and training providers, led by Sparsholt College Hampshire.

JULIE KAPSALIS

Julie is Principal & CEO at North East Surrey College of Technology (Nescot) in Epsom in Surrey. Nescot supports around 8,000 learners each year and has recently opened a new Institute of Technology. Julie has worked in economic development for 20 years with a particular focus on enterprise, skills and social inclusion. Julie is Chair of Coast to Capital LEP and a Director/Trustee to a number of organisations including Go Epsom, Gatwick Diamond Business, Aurora Academies Trust and Worthing Theatres & Museum

Tom Woods

Tom is the Business Connector for the LSIP Project for Surrey and North Hampshire. His role is to work with local businesses and industry bodies to understand their current and future skills needs, and to liaise with local skills providers to support how this gets translated into practical actions. Tom has rejoined Surrey Chambers, previously working in the Membership Team after a brief spell away working in the Professional Services industry, to join the project. He is looking forward to getting to know the organisations involved in the project and help them achieve their aims

Ross McNally

Ross has 40 years’ Board level experience across business representation organisations and a range of service sectors. Providing leadership of Hampshire Chamber of Commerce his focus is on strategy, development, stakeholder engagement and ensuring the collective voice of Hampshire businesses shapes policy objectives.

Ross was formerly Chief Executive of the network of accredited Chambers of Commerce in the South East of England. At CEO-level his career spans leisure and tourism, franchise development, national business association and Higher Education. Ross is educated to post graduate level in business and leadership management with skills in strategic business direction, positioning, and transformation.

GEORGINA ANGELE

As the Strategic Careers Hub Lead for the Surrey Careers Hub, Georgina’s role is to drive sustainable and progressive system change in careers provision in schools, special schools, alternative provisions, and colleges in Surrey. She creates the vision and strategy for the Careers Hub. The Careers Hub drives cross-sector employer engagement, aligning with local economic and skills priorities.

Georgina has worked in local and regional skills and employability roles for over 15 years, championing education, training and employment opportunities for young people and connecting employers to their future talent and workforce.

STEPHEN MARTIN

Stephen Martin is Managing Director at Enterprise M3 Local Enterprise Partnership, a business-led partnership bringing together the private, public, and not-for-profit sectors to drive economic growth across Hampshire and Surrey. Stephen previously worked in the recruitment sector, in management consultancy, and in the Civil Service, where his last role was as a director in the Department of Energy and Climate Change.

SUZANNE GRANT

Suzanne is Deputy Principal and Deputy CEO for Sparsholt College Group. Suzanne has a detailed understanding of meeting skills needs, college funding arrangements and college contractual and compliance provisions. She writes bids and funding applications for the college and colleges throughout the region and provides oversight of regional college delivery programmes – including the Local Skills Improvement Fund and the Strategic Development Fund, before. Suzanne is passionate about the Green Skills agenda and ensuring that student have access to new and evolving technologies and work experience.

Sue Taylor

Sue has worked for ALPS/ALPHI since 2003, she joined as a freelancer, running the networks ESF programmes which in total were valued at £4 million. Sue continued to run these until their successful completion and alongside these ALPS ran the Train to Gain contract. Both contracts were Ousted inspected at Grade 2.

Previously to ALPS, Sue worked as a Director for Kingsley Training, a Grade 2 provider in Care.

Sue’s main role is building ALPS ALPHI’s membership ensuring there is a wide selection of providers in the group.

Sue represents the network ensuring that ALPS ALPHI is always thought upon as the Go-To place for apprenticeships/ in Surrey, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight.

The Surrey Skills Leadership Forum Vice Chair
AELP, Sue is the regional Chair in the South
The ASK project (Apprenticeships Support and Knowledge in Schools)
National Apprenticeship Service National awards
Surrey Chamber of Commerce links with employers
Federation of Small Business links with employers