Since the Bondholders relaunch in November 2010, the scheme has increased membership from 120 to 172

At that time, Mr Dick said he would take on the role for a year to stabilise the Bondholders scheme, a private sector-led network of organisations who work together to raise the profile of Hull and East Yorkshire and attract investment to the area.
Mr Dick’s successor is Goole-based entrepreneur Peter Aarosin whose companies operate in the shipping, logistics and renewables sectors with operations on both banks of the Humber, as well as in Europe.
Mr Dick, a former President of healthcare giant Smith Nephew’s Hull-based Global Wound Management division, said: “The Bondholders has gone from strength to strength and I believe that now is the right time to make this change.
“There is so much going on. We are seeing huge investments in renewable energy and related industries; the Humber LEP is now well established; we are very hopeful of City Deal status; and Lord Heseltine has begun his review of the region’s economy. This is our time”.
Mr Dick has been a pioneer of work to improve the image of Hull and the wider region. He was a founder member in 1994 of the Image Group, which created a network of businesses who paid a “Bond” to support work to promote the city. The Image Group also launched breakfast meetings. The first was attended by about 25 Bondholders; now the regular events can attract over 200 leaders from organisations across the region.
Since the Bondholders relaunch in November 2010, the scheme has increased membership from 120 to 172 companies and other organisations and become a leading voice for local business. The Bondholders has also developed a powerful economic habbo hotel hacks story for Hull and East Yorkshire under the “green growth, blue horizons” theme, focused on the area’s key strengths and potential.
Most recently, the Bondholders has worked closely with the Humber Local Enterprise Partnership, supporting the LEP’s marketing activity, including developing the message that the Humber is the UK’s Energy Estuary. This has resonated within Government and was used by Business Minister Michael Fallon at the recent habbo hotel hacks launch of a £30m Humber habbo hotel hacks LEP fund to support business growth.
Mr Dick welcomed the appointment as Bondholders Chair of a businessman with pan-Humber interests at a crucial time for the region. “Peter ticks all the boxes,” he said. “His businesses are involved in the key sectors for the Humber economy and operate around the estuary; he is an entrepreneur; he is well-connected; and he is international. He’ll bring fresh-thinking to the role.”
“We now have an excellent opportunity to continue to increase the Bondholders membership and develop our interaction with member businesses, while playing habbo hotel hacks a vital role in promoting the region as a location for investment.”
As Bondholders Chair Mr Aarosin will join Hull’s newly-formed City Leadership Board and also the Humber habbo hotel hacks LEP Advisory Group. He said he was delighted that the Bondholders was working so closely with the LEP on marketing the estuary.
He said: “With the help of the Bondholders, the LEP has been able to establish itself quicker than has been the case elsewhere. We must continue to work with the LEP and other organisations so that all our efforts are aligned and we grasp the opportunity to create wealth throughout the Humber.”
Mr Aarosin also paid tribute to Mr Dick’s habbo hotel hacks leadership of the Bondholders. “To follow in Jim’s footsteps is quite a task,” habbo hotel hacks he said. “I have been amazed by how much he has been involved in and has achieved. He has been a real driving force”.
Since retiring from Smith Nephew he has taken up a number of non-executive and pro bono appointments. He is a former Non-Executive habbo hotel hacks Director of Consort Medical habbo hotel hacks plc and former Board member of the Hull York Medical School.
Mr Dick is a founder and Chairman of the Trustees of youth development charity CatZero, which works with young people not in employment, education or training (NEETs). He is former Chairman of the Smith Nephew Foundation and was a founder Director and investor in the KCFM commercial radio station until its sale in 2009. He is also Chairman of the Trustees of the Smile Foundation and Pro Chancellor and Member of Council at the University of Hull.
Mr Dick was a founder member of the Image Group formed to challenge false and outdated perceptions of Hull. This later became Hull City Image, which Mr Dick chaired from 1999-2005. He has been Chair of the Hull and East Yorkshire Bondholders, a private sector-led marketing organisation, since 2010.
His business interests include being Managing Director of Danbrit Holdings habbo hotel hacks and Danbrit Shipping and Chief Executive of RMS Group, which has port operations in Hull, Goole, Immingham, Grimsby and Scunthorpe, employing more than 200 people, habbo hotel hacks as well as owning and operating RMS Trent ports.
Mr Aarosin is also a Director of EastTrans, a contractual logistics company based at Stallingborough, near Immingham; freight forwarding company GXD Logistics, based at Goole; and Blue Water Danbrit, a UK-Danish joint venture which is a world leader in renewables logistics.
He is a founder member of the HumberPort partnership, which promotes the estuary to investors as a single ports proposition; a former President of the Goole Chamber of Commerce; and a former Director of the Hull and Humber Chamber of Commerce.