Our Director of Investment and Growth is Michelle Percy.
Our Director of Investment and Growth is:
Our Investment and Growth directorate includes:
Michelle’s role is to deliver a major change programme and shape our approach to becoming an enterprising council.
Michelle joined us as lead assistant director of commercial development in October 2016.
Prior to joining us Michelle played a leading role in a Newcastle based property company and the initial phases of the Stephenson Quarter – a 10 acre regeneration site next to Newcastle central station, containing several listed buildings, within a conservation area.
Given Michelle’s background and experience in the property sector she took over the strategic property team in 2017 and then in 2018 all of the property services function to support the council’s ongoing transformation of its assets.
In September 2019 Michelle took the role of Director of Place, which in spring 2024 was retitled Director of Investment and Growth.