MIKE THEODOULOU - EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN

	As Executive Chairman, Mike Theodoulou joined Foothold in 1998, at a time when the organisation was a small, Local Enterprise Agency. With a career which has been equally divided between the commercial and the not-for-profit sectors. Mike’s career began successfully on the London Stock Exchange, before moving to working in Local Government.
	Over a number of years he developed his career with several Housing Associations in London and subsequently became Chief Executive of one of the largest Housing Associations in the U.K. In the private sector, he has been Managing Director of a Development and Construction Company and Executive Director of Quality Street Ltd. (properties), where he had responsibility for the overall investment of £1/4 billion for the organisation. Since his move to Wales, Mike has provided the vision and leadership which has taken The Foothold Group through a period of growth and diversification, establishing it as one of the leading regeneration companies in the Principality. Mike had and currently has close involvement with a number of other organisations: •Chair of eChamber Wales •Founder Chair of the Partnership Board which set-up Finance Wales, the _Welsh Development Bank •Founder Chair and current Director of Chamber Wales •Chairman of Carmarthenshire Chamber of Commerce (the second largest _ Chamber in Wales) •President of Burry Port and Pembrey Chamber of Commerce •Member of the Committee that oversees Objective One in Wales, being _one of the original negotiating team with the Commission. •Chair of the E.U. Objective One, Monitoring Sub-Committee. •Committee member on the Board preparing Wales for the next round of _E.U. funding , as well as the Wales Rural Development Plan Group. •Non-Executive Director of Carmarthenshire NHS Trust •Locally, Chair of School Governors.