Thank you to all those members who participated in the bi-annual Chair / Vice Chair elections. I am very pleased to introduce your newly elected officials as:

Chairman – Mr Andy Westgarth

Vice Chairman – Mr Tim Leung

A big thank you also to George Gallagher and Phil Pursglove for putting themselves into the race this year. Although they were piped at the post I know they will continue to put the interests of their developers / regions first.

Thanks for the great work you do, as well of course as the rest of our Regional Coordinators!

A few words from Andy and Tim:

Tim Leung, Vice Chair

I am delighted to have been elected Vice Chair and wish to thank all of those who voted for me. I would also like to thank Mark and George for the hard work that they have put into the group over the last 2 years.

Both Andy and I are enthusiastic about the challenges that we face and we look forward to bringing some positive improvement to VBUG. I hope that this fresh change in leadership will revitalise the group and I shall work hard to achieve the goals that we have set ourselves.

Andy Westgarth, Chair

First and foremost, I would like to issue a huge thank you to all who have voted for me in this year’s election. I am very, very pleased to have been elected Chairman and I am very much looking forward to the next two years in the role. I would like to echo Tim's sentiments and issue my thanks also to Mark and George for their sterling work that they put into VBUG as Chairman and Vice Chairman over the past two years.

As was evident by the thoughts of both Tim and myself in the run up to the election, we have a number of ideas of where we'd like to see VBUG develop and how to do that. I am looking forward, very much, to working with Tim to deliver on our thoughts for the VBUG membership.

We are in a very rapidly developing community and indeed industry, and because of this, both myself and Tim will be looking to start planning how we will deliver on our aims for VBUG, initially over the next 6-12 months and then onto the following 12. We both look forward to meeting and talking to all of our members as we visit the various regional groups over the coming two years, at the Annual conference, and please come up and say hello if you see us at any of the many developer community events around the country.

Once again, thanks for your support, and I hope to meet and talk with many of you soon

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