Chamber Council welcomes three high-profile figures

Three leading business figures have joined Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce 's Chamber Council.

The new council members are Rebekah Taitt, regional development director of Lloyds Banking Group, Elisabeth Lewis Jones, CEO of Liquid agency and Deborah Hazell, CEO of Unity Trust Bank.

Chamber Council plays an important role in steering the policy and campaigning activities of the GBCC, as well as voting on priority themes for the year ahead.

Deborah Hazell (pictured) is CEO of Unity Trust Bank, a socially-motivated commercial bank based in Birmingham which was crowned the Greater Birmingham Business of the Year at this month 's GBCC annual dinner and awards.

Deborah was formerly CEO of HSBC Global Asset Management (USA) and regional head of HSBC Global Asset Management, Americas, where she oversaw the asset management business in Bermuda, Brazil, Canada, Mexico and Argentina

Lis-Lewis Jones is the CEO of Liquid, a fully integrated PR, social, digital, marketing and design consultancy working globally in 26 different jurisdictions.

In 2022, Liquid was named by the PRCA as Large Consultancy of the Year in the global Platinum awards, while PR Week named Liquid the third largest consultancy working in the public sector in the UK.

In 2011, Liquid acquired offices in the Channel Islands, making it the first UK PR consultancy to have offices in Jersey and Guernsey.

The agency now has an office in Brisbane, Australia.

Rebekah Taitt is regional development director at Lloyds Banking Group.

She has more than 10 years ' experience in the banking sector with knowledge across retail, wealth and corporate

In previous role, Rebekah was working with clients in the SME tier to achieve their potential and growing their portfolio of approximately 50 clients with a turnover between £6.5m and £50m.

Rebekah leads the Midlands Regional Development Programme at Lloyds - working collaboratively with political, non-political and business leaders in the city.

Raj Kandola, head of policy and strategic relationships at Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce, said: “I am delighted that three such high calibre candidates will be joining Chamber Council in the Spring.

“Whether it 's the cost of doing business crisis, labour market challenges or supply chain disruption, the role of Chamber Council in steering our lobbying and research priorities has never been more important.

“All three candidates displayed a passion for helping the local business community and a vast array of knowledge which will help shape our broader objectives of helping local firms to connect, support and grow as we emerge from an uncertain time. ”

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