On Tuesday 02 October 2018, Fiona Ryder became the President of Norfolk Chamber of Commerce for a two year term of office.
In her inaugural speech, Ms Ryder, the Managing Director of TCD Media, outlined her key themes for her term. She choose innovation and outlined that with the ‘B’ word of Brexit looming early next year, businesses in Norfolk will need to innovate, modernise and apply new ways of thinking to deal with potential new border controls; manage complex supply chain issues; and improve their productivity.
Fiona, also evoked the ‘F’word. As only the second ‘Female’ Chamber President in 122 years, she was keen to promote modernisation of corporate culture and our boardrooms to ensure better economic outcomes for Norfolk businesses. She noted that in 2011 only 12.5% of FTSE 350 companies had women on their boards, whilst just 7 years later that figure is now at around 25%, but more work still needs to be done.
She promised to bring her energy, passion and innovation into her role as President and she will be pushing for change and championing initiatives that will raise awareness and effect positive change for our region.
