News

Due to the recent retirement of both the Chair and other colleagues from the LACA East of England Regional Committee, we have now carried out an election of the vacant Regional Officer posts and would like to inform you of the new Committee from 27^th April 2015:

Chair - Lin O’Brien, CEO of Hertfordshire Catering Limited (HCL)

Vice Chair - Jason Walmsley, County School Meals Adviser, Essex County Council

Treasurer - Adrian Groves, Area Sales Manager, Falcon Foodservice Equipment

Secretary - Adrian Groves, supported by Jill Taylor, Senior School Meals Support Manager, Essex CC

Committee Members:

Ruth Bannington, Catering Manager, Birchwood High School, Bishops Stortford
Ferri Fassishi, General Catering Manager, LBC Catering Services, Luton
Iole Jeffery, Commercial Operations Manager, HCL
Mark Jones, National Sales Manager, Bernard Matthews Foodservice
Rodney Lankester, Senior Regional Development Chef/Sales Manager (East), Rational UK Ltd
David Mackness, Head of Service, Northamptonshire
Diana Round, Operations Manager Cambridgeshire Catering & Cleaning Services
Nick Spencer, Head of Operations, Norse Commercial Services
Martin Walker, Business Account Manager, Premier Foods

The Committee will be meeting on a regular basis (next meeting 16^th July 2015) and will be busy during the coming year planning for forthcoming events, to meet the diverse needs of the LACA membership across the East of England. Our events programme will be carefully planned to reflect current issues within our industry and to support the work of the LACA national organisation.