Gordon Parkes

GORDON PARKES, Executive Director, People & Culture, was appointed to the Board in May 2019. He has over 40 years’ experience in Human Resources across several organisations and sectors and has been HR Director of NIE Networks since 2000.

He is a Board Member of the Board of Trustees of the Grand Opera House Trust and of the Royal Belfast Academical Institution. He has been a Board member at the Labour Relations Agency and a member of the CBI Employment and Skills Committee.

Since 2013 he has been a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (CIPD) and, in 2019, was awarded Chartered Companion status by the CIPD Board. He holds a Masters in Business Administration and is a member of the Institute of Directors.