Jamie Martin OBE
Deputy Chair
Jamie Martin has been Managing Partner of Ward Hadaway since 1998. Ward Hadaway is a commercial law firm with offices in Newcastle, Leeds and Manchester, which has over 70 Partners and about 400 staff with a turnover of approximately £30 million.
Jamie is Chairman of Newcastle College, the largest further education College in the country; he is also the Chair of Newcastle Gateshead Initiative and the Development Committee of Sunderland AFC Foundation. He is a previous Regional Chairman of CBI in the North East, currently serves on the Regional Council of CBI and is a member of the BITC Regional Leadership Group.
Jamie was awarded an OBE for Services to Business in the North East in the New Year’s Honours List 2008. He was commissioned as a Deputy Lieutenant of Tyne & Wear in June 2011.
