Ms Hilary Florek

(Date first appointed:  2018)

Hilary Florek is a strategic communications and marketing specialist with extensive experience in both the public and private sectors.

She is currently Chair of the Marine Management organisation, an executive non- departmental public body sponsored by the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, a position she took up in February 2018. Prior to this she was Chairman of the Port of Tyne for three years having served previously as Deputy Chairman. She began her career with the Vaux Group PLC and became PR and Communications Director a position she held till 2000 when she established her own marketing consultancy, HFPR Ltd.

She currently serves on the Board of Social Housing organisation, Karbon Homes, the Board of North East Access to Finance and she is also a Trustee of the North Music Trust at the Sage, Gateshead. She is also a Director of the BE-UK Employee Ownership Trust Co Limited and a Trustee of the Durham County Cricket Foundation.

Hilary has served as non-executive director on the boards of the Community Foundation for Tyne & Wear and Northumberland and the County Durham Foundation. She is a former Trustee of the Sunderland Youth Enterprise Trust and was a Board Member of Project North East.