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Giles Thomas

11th July 2023

I am the Operations Director for the Manor Collection hotel group based in Surrey. I am responsible for the day to day running of two busy hotels, with responsibility for 100 staff working across the two hotels along with key responsibility for growing Sales and Revenue, Marketing activity, Accounts management and Hotel Operational Management.

Hartsfield Manor, Betchworth, is set in 16 acres of beautiful Surrey countryside and surrounded by lawns and a garden terrace. The Victorian grandeur gracefully absorbs the modern comforts and facilities, including 50 bedrooms, which makes this a popular wedding, conference and dining venue.

Reigate Manor Hotel also with 50 bedrooms offers a prime location in Surrey for any business meeting, conference, wedding reception, civil marriage, birthday party, dinner dance, or simply an opportunity to enjoy our renowned Sunday carvery or afternoon tea in the lounge or restaurant

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

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

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

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

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

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,

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

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

Dan Morgan

Dan Morgan is Managing Partner of Haines Watts, running both the Esher and Bromley offices. Haines Watts are a firm of Accountants and Business Advisors to the owner managed business sector. They have developed a range of services to cover

Louise Punter

Steve Coburn

Steve Coburn is Managing Director of projectfive, an IT support company based in Camberley. He founded the business in 2002 in the wake of the Enron scandal (projectfive was responsible for recovering the electronic data from the UK that helped

Sarah Butcher

Sarah joined the Chamber in April 2014 after a 12 year career at the University of Surrey. Sarah is the Head of Membership at the Chambers and is passionate about helping Surrey businesses grow and prosper. Sarah looks after Surrey

Tara Wavre

Tara joined the Chambers in 2017 after a long career in financial roles. She is now the Resources Manager whose main priority is making sure the Chambers office runs smoothly, allowing the whole team to deliver a first class service

Aaron Law

After graduating from the University of Brighton, Aaron joined the Chamber in 2017 as part of the International Trade team, and has since worked up the ranks to take on the role of International Trade Manager in 2022. Aaron oversees

Elsa Rizou

Elsa joined the Surrey Chambers team in 2020. She has a degree in languages and translation and worked in the online betting industry for many years. She has experience in Customer Service, Payments and Fraud Prevention. As a member of

Martine Robins

Martine Robins left corporate life in 2016 and is now the owner of a growing and successful HR consultancy providing all aspects of HR support to local businesses. Martine is passionate about helping businesses achieve their goals through maximising their

Niamh Looby

Niamh is the new Events & Marketing Manager and is looking forward to putting together an exciting events calendar for 2024. She joins us from Premier Sports Network where she worked as Networker and Events Manager in the sports industry,

Emily White

Emily joined the Surrey Chambers team in February 2021 on the Kickstart Scheme placement. Emily had her own beauty business working as an Eyelash Technician but that has taken a backseat due to Coronavirus. Since taking on the role of

Annie Umair

Annie has joined the LSIP project as the Event’s Co-ordinator and Project Support. Her role is to support the team to ensure the effective co-ordination and delivery of the projects’ objectives. This includes providing admin support, co-ordinating enquiries that come into

Alison Galvin MBE

Alison Galvin MBE is Chief People Officer at Inv Group – home to Invotra, Invuse, Inverifi & Invdev – where she is responsible for driving the successful multi award-winning apprenticeship program and recruitment strategy across the Group. She is responsible

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Giles Thomas

11th July 2023

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