"After nearly three years on the Board of Partnerships UK plc and latterly as Chairman, Gordon Horsfield has decided to step down from the role.
Existing PUK Board member Gren Folwell has been appointed as Chairman with immediate effect and will help lead PUK through the period in which capabilities supporting major projects are transferred to the Government’s newly established Infrastructure UK. Gren will work with new Chief Executive Michael Gerrard on all aspects of PUK’s business in the coming period.
Gren Folwell said: “I want to place on record my warm thanks to Gordon Horsfield for the tremendous service he has given to Partnerships UK, first as a member of the Board and as Chairman. He has helped steer the organisation through a significant period of change and challenge and has ensured that as Infrastructure UK gets underway, the advice and support we have been able to provide to public bodies is of a quality that has preserved and secured much-needed investment, even in tough economic times.”
Gren Folwell Biography
Gren Folwell’s career spans both the public and private sectors. He was Director of Finance of the London Borough of Bexley and City Treasurer of Sheffield MDC before joining the Halifax as Treasurer in 1986. Gren served on the Halifax Board from 1989 as Group Finance Director and, following its flotation and merger with the Leeds Permanent in 1995, became Managing Director and subsequently Deputy Group Chief Executive. Gren joined the Board of PUK at its formation in 2000.
He is currently also a Non-Executive Director of SSP Ltd.