Greater Morpeth Development Trust

Board

Doug Phillips: Chair
Colin Harvey: Vice Chair
Kim Bibby-Wilson: Director
Bruce Murray: Director
Dave Pope: Director
Henry Warne: Director
Frank Resignio: Director

Doug Phillips
	Now a retired Administrator having worked in Local Government, the NHS and for the Trade Union UNISON (formerly with NALGO). Doug is married with one grown up son and has lived in Morpeth for 34 years. Since retiring he has been involved with Local politics and has served on the Town Council from 1999 - 2003 and Castle Morpeth Borough Council from 2003 – 2007. He was appointed Chairman of GMDT in October 2006 and is an appointee of the Borough Council. Doug is very passionate about Public Service and believes that Public Buildings should be enhanced and kept in good order for public use and that the environment should be treasured. On a lighter note he is a keen Golfer (19 handicap) and loves football (A big Newcastle United fan). He also enjoys walking and reading.

Colin Harvey
	Colin trained as an Industrial Chemist in rare metals, coatings and radioactive materials involving analytical work, both chemical, spectrographic and X-ray. He moved into Technical Sales and Marketing with several national and international companies and managed autonomous divisions within these companies, covering product development, packaging, pricing, budget setting and subsequent performance assessment, business analusis and the creation of PROFIT. After almost 40 years Colin moved into the insurance related business as an Associate Director of a firm of Loss Assessors using his knowledge of business to enable both recovery of losses and re-establishment of business in the face of a major loss by flood, fire or other factor. He is a long term resident of Morpeth and now retired, a Director of GMDT and Secretary of Morpeth Footpath Society

Kim Bibby-Wilson
	Kim is chairman of the Morpeth Northumbrian Gathering Committee responsible for the region’s annual festival of traditional culture; she is also a committee member of Morpeth Antiquarian Society and Friends of Morpeth Museum; trustee of the Old Bakehouse Millennium Green Trust; secretary of the Northumbrian Language Society; Bagpipes Representative of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries and Vice-Chairman of the Chantry Bagpipe Museum Liaison Committee. Born into a Morpeth family, Kim has followed enthusiastically in the footsteps of her forebears, combining their passions for history, culture, commerce and civic life. Kim's great grand father was Borough Surveyor; her father was a writer and historian and her mother was a performer and third-generation woolshop proprietor. Trained as an archaeologist and a teacher of many years’ experience, Kim is a singer and player of traditional music on numerous instruments with the Border Directors band and the trio Spindlestone.

Bruce Murray
	Coming soon
Dave Pope
	Dave's membership of GMDT, and latterly his service as a Community Director came about as a natural progression from his involvement with Morpeth Pride, and Morpeth & District Chamber of Trade, both of which organisations gave the opportunity to be a participant in the vital and on-going development of the town. Of the latter organisation, Dave was pleased to serve as Chairman for three years. Dave's own occupational background includes agriculture, engineering, transport, hotels and catering, computer systems maintenance and, for the last 10 years, running his own small business in web design & small business IT support. The latter has given him the opportunity to work alongside a wide variety of businesses and organisations, mostly Morpeth based, thus gaining in insight into the nature of commercial activity in a regional market town. As a keen amateur musician, Dave has been involved in a number of aspects of the local Arts scene, both as a performer and as an events organiser. Consequently, his involvement with culture in Morpeth has been mostly with such events as Morpeth’s Summer and Winter Fairs, “Picnic in the Park” and the free entertainment provided over the summer holiday Saturdays by a partnership of local organisations. Drawing on this wide variety of experience, Dave is always happy to become involved in any local activity, which fulfils the Chamber of Trade’s strap-line – “Promoting Morpeth for Business, Residence and Tourism”
Henry Warne
	Henry has been Community Director of Greater Morpeth Development Trust since October 2007 and is chairman of the Economy Interest Group. For many years he has had a keen interested in the affairs of Morpeth and the surrounding area – as a member of Morpeth Civic Society and, more recently as Chairman of Morpeth Pride during the last eighteen months of its existence. Henry is a retired solicitor with a particular interest in planning matters. He has worked in local government as well as in private practice. Henry is concerned to see that the town prospers without spoiling its main asset – its character and charm.
Frank Rescigno
	IFrank was born and raised Philadelphia Pennsylvania USA and was transferred to Morpeth in 1989 by Eastman Chemical. He loved the area so much he decided to stay after retiring. Frank worked for Eastman Chemical Co (a division of Kodak) for 30 years . He held various positions in Tennessee, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and North Carolina. He has been Tec. Service, Sales Rep., Northeast District Sales Manager, National Accounts Manager, Product Manager Speciality Chemicals, Speciality Chemicals Stream Management, European Sales Manager and International Sales Director Eastman Fine Chemicals. As well as being on the GMDT Board and Arts & Culture Chairman, Franks isTreasurer and Church Warden at St. Mary Magdalene in Mitford, Treasurer GDBA Morpeth Branch, recording Technician Morpeth Talking Newspaper, volunteer Morpeth Area Partially Sighted, Community Board for Collingwood Art and Media College, and former Vice Chair of MDAT.