{"id":15229,"date":"2020-05-11T09:40:59","date_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:40:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/?p=15229"},"modified":"2020-05-11T09:40:59","modified_gmt":"2020-05-11T09:40:59","slug":"industry-leader-gary-worrall-becomes-eca-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/industry-leader-gary-worrall-becomes-eca-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Industry leader Gary Worrall becomes ECA President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior business manager and engineer Gary Worrall has become the new President of ECA, the UK\u2019s leading engineering services trade association.<\/p>\n<p>Over 30 years ago, Gary became an engineer for Lorne Stewart Engineering, a prominent M&amp;E business and longstanding ECA Member. Gary progressed through the business to become CEO of Lorne Stewart PLC\u2019s engineering division, having held several senior management roles along the way.<\/p>\n<p>Gary takes over the ECA Presidency from Jim Pridham, who played a key role during the past 12 months, most notably through his promotion of industry training and apprenticeships.<\/p>\n<p>Worrall commented: \u201cAs someone who is passionate about electrical and engineering services, I\u2019m delighted to be taking over this prestigious ECA role as an industry advocate and leader.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe industry currently faces unprecedented challenges, and I am determined to play a role in supporting ECA Member businesses and the industry through these extremely difficult times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The full ECA Presidential team for 2020\/21 is as follows:<\/p>\n<p>President \u2013 Gary Worrall (Lorne Stewart)<br \/>\nSenior Vice President \u2013 David Lewis (Chancery Contracts)<br \/>\nVice President \u2013 Steve Murray (WT Jenkins)<br \/>\nImmediate Past President \u2013 Jim Pridham (JR Pridham Services)<\/p>\n<p>ECA CEO Steve Bratt added: \u201cWe are delighted to announce Gary Worrall has become our new ECA President. The entire ECA team look forward to working with Gary to further develop what the ECA delivers for its Members, and in support of the wider engineering services sector.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also like to welcome long-standing ECA advocate Steve Murray to the role of Vice President, and to thank Jim Pridham for his valuable contributions to ECA\u2019s national and regional activity during the past year, and for his support for the ECA team.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The new ECA Presidential team was confirmed on Wednesday 6 May.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior business manager and engineer Gary Worrall has become the new President of ECA, the UK\u2019s leading engineering services trade association. Over 30 years ago, Gary became an engineer for Lorne Stewart Engineering, a prominent M&amp;E business and longstanding ECA Member. Gary progressed through the business to become CEO of Lorne Stewart PLC\u2019s engineering division, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-news","et-has-post-format-content","et_post_format-et-post-format-standard"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/4494.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15229"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15233,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15229\/revisions\/15233"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ewnews.co.uk\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}