Robin Fletcher, Esq

Career: reporter Birmingham Post and Mail 1984-89, sr ed Midland Weekly Newspapers and ed Solihull News 1990-92; ed: Northampton Chronicle and Echo 1992-94, West Lancashire Evening Gazette 1994-95, Wales on Sunday 1996, South Wales Echo 1996-2001; communications dir Trinity Mirror Regionals 2002-03; founding dir Reflex Business Servs Ltd 2003-11, communications dir Aster Gp 2011-; dir: Northampton Mercury Co Ltd 1994, Blackpool Gazette & Herald Ltd 1994-95; dir/tstee Cobalt Medical Imaging 2008-; Guild of Editors: memb 1993-2001, vice-chm Gen Purposes Ctee 1996, hon sec S Wales region 1996 and 1999 (pres 1997-98 and 1999-2001); media advsr Wales Advsy Bd Busines In the Community 2001-03; non-exec dir Williams Ross Ltd 2006-08, dir Five Valleys Business Network Ltd 2007-08; memb Employment Support Ctee Blackpool Fylde and Wyre Soc for the Blind 1995-96, memb Wales Nat Ctee Wooden Spoon Soc 1999-2000, memb Stakeholder Forum Univ of Wales Inst Cardiff 2009-; highly commended Regional Ed of the Year Newspaper Focus Awards 1994; memb Inst of Internal Communication, assoc Chartered Inst for Personnel and Devpt 2009-; hon fell Cardiff Met Univ (formerly Univ of Wales Inst Cardiff); FRSA 1999, MInstD