Eric Brooke has experience in a wide range of sectors, has managed substantial budgets and led teams of senior staff. He has a dynamic and engaging personality, is eloquent in meetings, has strong leadership qualities and is an efficient organiser. He has an innate ability to translate creative strategic thinking into practical activity. He has helped to transform and improve relationships between local authority and private and voluntary and community sectors and is playing a key role in building a new unitary authority out of the Cornwall's County and District councils. He was vice chair of the county LSP responsible for the Cornwall Sustainable Community Strategy and the development of the Local Area Agreement. In his current position he has transformed delivery services, increased efficiency and improved customer relations; developed new communications approaches; and assisted in the economic development of the creative industries in Cornwall.
- Blair Thomson, Chair, Cornwall Strategic Partnership, UK