MEET THE BOARD

David is a founder member of NCBC, a Board member since 1991 and Chairman since 2008.  After an apprenticeship in Human Resource Management, Production Management and consultancy, with his wife Fiona, David established Williamson Consulting in 1993.

 

He spent six years on the UK Doctors and Dentists Review Body and was a member of the NI Councillors Remuneration Panel. Three children in full time education keeps him working on a range of consultancy, mainly for central and local government.  In his rare free time David has many bad habits including classic cars, motorcycles, good wine, blues and jazz music, gardening and DIY. He is keen to see NCBC continue to grow as a valuable resource for North Belfast and a catalyst for economic and social regeneration in the area.

Paul joined the Board of NCBC in early 2017 and has been in business in the North Belfast area for 27 years. As a co director of Carlin Hair he has had multi-nominations for his Colour Work reaching Notional Level and has presented his work on the International Stage as an ambassador for the Hairdressing Industry in N.Ireland, he is also the Chair of the Antrim Road Business Association and Chair and Founder Member of Cavehill Community Choir.

 

Community and Business Development are Paul’s passion and he feels that by developing strong community links this will help drive the local economy. Paul is married, has one son who is still in full time education, loves riding his Vespa on sunny days, has 3 dogs which he takes hill walking regularly and at the time of writing has completed 13 marathons including Dublin, Belfast and London.

Ian lives in Belfast and was educated at MCB and London University. After graduating in economics Ian studied accountancy. After a spell in practice, he became the Finance Director of a leading Irish brand and was promoted to Chief Executive, holding that position for 16 years.

 

He has much expertise in strategic planning, transformation, finance and marketing. Ian was Chair of PlayBoard, Vice Chair of Sport NI, Director of Sport NI, and is presently Vice Chair of Ark Housing. He has a keen interest in rugby and football, initially as a player and now as an administrator, and holds the positon of Chairman of Rugby at Queen’s University, Belfast. He is married to Lynne with three grown-up children.

Duncan Morrow is an academic and community activist. He is currently the Director of Community Engagement at Ulster University in Belfast at a time when the University is going through its biggest-ever transformation by relocating its largest campus into the north of the city. His interest in inter-community relationships and questions of peace and conflict have shaped both his University career and his activity outside those walls.

 

For nine years, Duncan was Chief Executive of the Northern Ireland Community Relations Council and he has worked on a wide variety of issues connected to peacebuilding, criminal justice and political development in Northern Ireland and beyond. Recently he has worked with the Scottish Government as the chair of independent Ministerial advisory groups on tackling Sectarianism and on Hate Crime, Prejudice and Community Cohesion. He is married and the father of three creative and lively adult children.

I am originally from Newry, Co. Down and moved to Belfast for University in 2010, I fell in love with the city and haven’t looked back. I have been a local resident of North Belfast for the past 7 years.

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I studied Architecture in the University of Ulster and after graduating I travelled across the world to explore different cultures. On my return to Belfast I embarked on my career in construction, I am currently a Chartered member of CIAT.

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My construction career started in June 2016. I worked as an Architectural Technologist in a multi-disciplinary Design Team in Henderson Group Property (HGP) Ltd. In December 2019 I joined the Northern Ireland Civil Service, Department of Finance, Construction and Procurement Delivery Division. I have been employed as a Senior Architectural Technologist/ Project Manager. My current role involves providing architectural/ construction delivery and procurement advice to client departments and other public bodies. Being a Senior Project Manager for the department requires a series of key skills such as effective communication skills, strong leadership, good/smart decision making, negotiation skills, technical expertise and being able to provide value for money as its crucial for public spending.

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I maintain and develop professional knowledge and competence to provide a source of expertise and authoritative advice and ensure high professional standards and decision making are upheld within my team.

Outside of work I live a very active lifestyle embarrassingly based around worshiping my two dachshunds. I live with my partner and we are a couple of months out from our wedding (April 2023).

A North Belfast native, Damian is a founding partner of HHD solicitors and would specialise in Civil and Commercial Litigation.  He is recognised as a leading medical negligence lawyer specialising in claims of birth trauma and cerebral palsy.  He was the instructed solicitor responsible for securing the largest personal injury settlement in a medical negligence action to date in Northern Ireland being a settlement of circa £8 million. He would regularly represent clients who have suffered catastrophic injury or fatality as a result of an accident at work or road traffic accident.  He advises and represents commercial clients in matters of professional negligence, judicial review and contractual dispute, together with commercial property transactions.

 

Damian has been responsible for successfully challenging government departments resulting in universal change to the regulatory framework. He is a member of PNLA (the Professional Negligence Association), a member of Belfast Solicitors’ Association and a member of the Law Society of Northern Ireland. Damian has lectured to Ulster University medical law and ethics students in February 2018 and to the Law Society of Northern Ireland on high value catastrophic brain injury claims in October 2018. Damian lives in North Belfast with his wife and 4 children and enjoys cycling the Camino Santiago de Compostela and travelling to Old Trafford to watch Manchester United. He is also known for travelling far and wide to see Bruce Springsteen in concert.