• Chair – Matt Boyle OBE, NEAA Chairman, North East Automotive Alliance
  • Project Lead – Mark David, Skills Manager, North East Automotive Alliance
  • Paul Butler, CEO, North East Automotive Alliance
  • Margherita Pasquariello, Skills Strategy Lead, North East Automotive Alliance
  • Jill McKinney, Head of Skills Sunderland Software City, Director Dynamo North East
  • Martin Kendall, Managing Director, Vantec
  • Toni Rhodes,  Chief Executive, Education Partnership North East
  • Andrew Broadbent, Principal & Chief Executive, New College Durham 
  • John Scott, Head of Economic Growth, South Tyneside Council
  • Deputy Chair – Charlotte Carpenter, Director of Skills, Inclusion & Public Reform, North East Combined Authority
  • Catriona Lingwood, CEO, Constructing Excellence North East
  • Alison Gwynn, Chief Executive, North East Screen
  • NERDSC
  • NE Pharma
  • NOF/ Energi Coast
  • Dynamo
  • Colleges of the North East
  • Universities of the North East