Appointments: Julie Kenny at Yorkshire Forward

Dec 21 2010 by Henryk Zientek, Huddersfield Daily Examiner

A DIRECTOR of an award-wining firm making security equipment has been appointed to chair regional development agency Yorkshire Forward.

Julie Kenny, managing director of Rotherham-based Pyronix Ltd, takes over from current Yorkshire Forward chairman Terry Hodkinson and will hold the post until the agency closes in March next year.

She is a board member of Creative Sheffield and Yorkshire Forward as well as chairing the governors at Maltby Academy and Mount St Mary’s College. Ms Kenny is a commissioner with the UK Commission for Employment and Skills as well as being chairman and director of the British Security Industry Association.

Ms Kenny was appointed a Deputy Lieutenant for South Yorkshire in 2005 and in 2006 received an honorary doctorate from Sheffield Hallam University. She had a successful career as a litigation lawyer in local authority and private practice before founding Pyronix Ltd.