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Freeport East
Freeport East is one of twelve freeports in England. It is a hub for global trade and national regeneration, and a hotbed for innovation that will impact the region and the UK. It covers over a thousand square kilometres in total, stretching from Felixstowe and Harwich down through Clacton and Jaywick, out around Colchester and Sudbury, Stowmarket and Woodbridge and will create 13,500 new jobs and generate a Gross Value Added (GVA) of £5.5 billion over 10 years.
Freeport East
Freeport East is one of twelve freeports in England. It is a hub for global trade and national regeneration, and a hotbed for innovation that will impact the region and the UK. It covers over a thousand square kilometres in total, stretching from Felixstowe and Harwich down through Clacton and Jaywick, out around Colchester and Sudbury, Stowmarket and Woodbridge and will create 13,500 new jobs and generate a Gross Value Added (GVA) of £5.5 billion over 10 years.Meet the experts
Sir Chris is a highly experienced non-executive and board chair. He is currently a Non-Executive Director at Freeport East and the Non-Executive Chairman of Gateway 14 in Stowmarket.
Experienced NED and Board Chair
Steve Beel
CEOSteve has over 20 years of experience across energy and infrastructure, international diplomacy, economic development and trade. Before being appointed CEO at Freeport East, he was a British diplomat and head of the UK’s development partnership with Zambia. Earlier in his career, he worked at Ofgem as a Commercial Director, where he was involved in many of the UK’s largest offshore wind and electricity interconnector projects, as well as Hutchison Whampoa and PwC.
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