New post for top executive

Oct 22 2008 by Peter McCusker, The Journal

A LEADING North East business figure is to take up a senior appointment with the Teesside-based Able Group.

Neil Etherington, 50, of Stockton, who has been chief executive of Redcar Racecourse for the past three years, is to become group development director with Billingham-based Able.

He was deputy regional director of the CBI in the North East before joining the Teesside Tomorrow as its chief executive in 1993. Three years later he became chief executive of the Tees Valley Development Company and when it merged with Tees Valley Regeneration in 2003 Mr Etherington became strategic investment and marketing director of TVR. Able chairman and chief executive Peter Stephenson said: “We are delighted that someone with Neil’s wide experience and involvement in the regeneration field is joining the company at such an important stage in our development.”