Andrew Haldane – Chief Economist, Executive Director Bank of England

Andrew Haldane is the Chief Economist at the Bank of England and Executive Director, Monetary Analysis and Statistics. He is a member of the Bank’s Monetary Policy Committee. He also has responsibility for research and statistics across the Bank. In 2014, TIME magazine named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. […]

Alberto Costa – Conservative Candidate for South Leicestershire

Alberto Costa Conservative Candidate for South Leicestershire Alberto Costa is an English and Scottish solicitor and notary public with over 15 years professional legal experience. He is the founding principal solicitor at the London based commercial law firm, Costa Carlisle Solicitors. He was a lawyer at Richards Butler (now Reed Smith) an international law firm […]

Owen Paterson MP

Owen was born in Whitchurch, Shropshire. He read History at Cambridge University, before joining his family leather business, becoming Managing Director in 1994. He speaks French and German. In twenty years in business he travelled all over the world, becoming President of COTANCE, the European Tanners’ Confederation. During the past 13 years, he has fought […]

Roger Nightingale

Economist Roger Nightingale is a well-known figure in London investment circles and also a man of trenchant views; refreshingly honest about the limits of his own profession, especially when it comes to foresight. He has little time for politicians, especially those of the European Union. He hasn’t much more for central bankers and none at […]

Rt Hon David Davis MP

Since being elected in 1997, David has been the Member of Parliament for Haltemprice and Howden. David was MP for the Boothferry constituency from 1987. David is known for defending his constituents’ interests, most recently by campaigning against proposed redundancies at Brough and persuading the Treasury to scrap a planned VAT rise on static caravans […]

The Biz Club Award 2014

  On Friday 14th November 2014 Normanton Park Hotel played host to our annual award lunch. This year’s winner was Terry Forsey who is the managing director of Terry Forsey Consulting, which is a specialist sales and marketing agency working with small owner manager software companies worldwide.  In 2012 Terry founded The Travers Foundation a […]

Lunch with James Buxton – 12th September 2014

On 12th September 2014 we welcomed James Buxton to speak to our members and guests at The Falcon Hotel James Buxton was born in County Durham in October 1939 but his parents lived in Leicestershire before the War. His father, a Local Director with Barclays Bank in Leicester, was killed in the War serving with […]