John Kennedy Snr (left) and David Parkin stand in front of his portrait after being inducted as a legend during the Hawthorn Hawks Season Launch and Hall of Fame presentation They would rather create the environment for an interesting discussion than dominate the conversation themselves.It is a refreshing approach and if you are in the market for a finance director or financial controller or indeed any other finance support roles, you will enjoy and benefit from speaking to them.Neil Muffit, managing partner of FDYL Woodrow Mercer, said: “We knew from our clients that there was a lot of interest in the sector as it has become regionally very important for business as well as for tourism. David Parkin is a cyclist from United Kingdom. By using this site, you agree to this use. This website uses cookies to improve service and provide tailored ads. Join Strava to track your activities, analyze your performance, and follow friends. That’s weird. If it does then it is certainly in a minority of one when it comes to chambers of commerce.I can’t remember the last decent chamber of commerce event I went to.Mind you, the benefit of being out of business journalism is that I don’t get as many invites to such dos these days.Sandra is a down-to-earth character who is enjoyable conversation. I’m not a weekend warrior or part of the lycra set, but I love the sport of cycling. It’s a bleak World Championships.”With three years until Yorkshire hosts the 2019 event, you can bet that the only thing that could possibly be bleak about it is the weather.Treat your colleagues and customers with Slingsby this ChristmasPurchase a case of 6 individually gift boxed bottles of award winning SlingsbyGin. David Parkin on more cycling success, creating a vibrant economy and a cure for killer clowns Published on October 14, 2016 October 14, 2016 • 19 Likes • 2 Comments She runs the Alexa guest house on Ripon Road in the spa town and she gave me a card bearing a photograph of the building.I complimented her on how the photo had beautifully captured the sunlight glinting off the attic window.Having won a bottle of champagne in the raffle at the 10th birthday celebration for Harrogate-based vehicle leasing business Synergy Automotive, she informed me that her bottle of bubbly would be a prize at the next chamber event.She’s teetotal and it turns out her father ran a wine merchants and she spent her sixteenth birthday at the Taittinger Champagne estate in Reims, not touching a drop.When I asked Sandra what her father’s business was called, it was Wakefield Wines, while his surname was also Wakefield.I asked whether that meant that her family had a long and storied history in the city.She told me that one of her uncles thought that might be the case and did some research into the family tree.But when the search traced their roots to a family of tinkers, he stopped digging.BUSINESS people are often portrayed as completely selfish individuals that only have their own interests at heart.I’ve rarely come across such individuals during my time in the business world and that view was underlined when I chaired a round table dinner for accountants and business advisers Grant Thornton at its Leeds office.The latest CEO Network Dinner featured business leaders from across the region and focused on the huge issue of skills and “shaping Yorkshire’s vibrant workforce”.There were a number of participants round the table who I knew already, such as Raymond Wolfson of oil exploration mapping business Getech, and Judit Petho of Genus Law and others who I met for the first time such as Andrew Fowlds of Distinction Doors, Richard Carter of software business Nostrum and David Ross of Callcredit.Add in young entrepreneurs like Ruth Amos of Stair Steady and Amy De-Balsi of Herd, as well as Bill Adams from the TUC and representatives from two of the region’s most entrepreneurial universities – Bob Cryan of University of Huddersfield and Chris Prince from Leeds Beckett University and you had a discussion which lived up to its billing under Grant Thornton’s Vibrant Economy programme.What struck me most was that for all those around the table, they understood the value of making the region in which their businesses operate better.They know that the value of a vibrant, thriving region, is further success for their own businesses and the ability to recruit quality staff as part of their growth.And another myth was also demolished around the table that evening: that accountants are dull.Andy Wood and his Grant Thornton colleagues were welcoming hosts who listened more than they spoke and when they did contribute, it was to provide valuable insight and ideas.The firm’s Vibrant Economy Commission has been launched to help the guide business and financial advisers’ efforts to build a vision for a better economy.The commission will examine the challenges and opportunities facing UK business and society and focus on tackling issues that are affecting companies, cities, people and communities, and attempt to identify how growth can be more equally shared across the country.Chatting to Andy Wood after the dinner, he said that he and his colleagues understood how, as advisers, they are in a privileged position to bring business people together and help connect them.MY mention of celebrity lookalikes a couple of weeks ago brought a suggestion from Dominic Higham, partner at law firm Clarion, that I looked similar to a photo of golfer Ian Poulter at the Ryder Cup.Then I was at an event last week and when I was introduced to a guest there, he said: “You’re the spitting image of the comedian Lee Mack.”Now, I can’t have been confused with either for my golfing prowess or my comedy genius, so what could explain the likeness?I DON’T know.

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