South Holland District Council appoints new commercialisation director

A new executive director of commercialisation for South Holland District Council will start on Monday.(Jan 23)

Christine Marshall joins the shared management team for South Holland and Breckland district councils.

She trained and qualified as a chartered accountant at Peterborough City Council, specialising in housing and systems accounting.

Christine has also been head of finance and IT at Boston Borough Council and for the last 13 years was a director at Melton Borough Council with responsibilities for finance, IT, legal, property and municipal services and more recently Economic and Strategic Development including the delivery of major property projects which have generated substantial savings for the Council over a number of years.

South Holland District Council leader Gary Porter said: “Our shared management team goes from strength to strength, pushing the boundaries of partnership working.
“We continue to capitalise on the huge opportunities for economic and housing growth in the district to draw in funding and resources to the district.

“I welcome Christine to help us realise our ambitions.”

Christine is married and lives with her husband Jonathan and son Oliver (9) in Peterborough.

The shared management team arrangement has been in place since 2011, generating over £4.5m in savings and enabling the councils to continue to improve services and focus on local priorities.

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