About Me

Gillian Richmond is YourUKpa  -  an Executive Assistant with over 20 years experience of working in both the public and private sector, including 15 years in the franchised retail motor trade as secretary to the MD and  five years working as an Executive PA for a government regulator – including two years as PA to a member of the House of Lords.    Her skills will make a valuable contribution to your business in the UK,  reduce your administrative burden and allow you to focus on more strategic matters.

Some of Gillian’s key achievements and core skills can be summarised as follows:

• Substantial experience supporting senior management teams and acting as Executive Assistant/Personal Assistant to 3 Chief Executives/Managing Directors. She has also performed this role to an entire Board comprising 12 Non Executive Directors.
  
  
• Participated in the due diligence process of an MBO with absolute discretion and demonstrated her ability to work with external advisory companies (legal, accountancy, etc).
  
• Strong organisational and administrative abilities with management experience of a busy office
  
  
• Represented the CEO and the company at business meetings and networking events
  
  
• Hands-on role assisting a CEO with a rapid business expansion across the UK
  
  
• Chairman of a trade association for secretarial/support staff

Gillian is a keen networker, and  from 2002 – 2006 was UK Chairman of European Management Assistants, a European network for PAs and secretaries which promotes self development, training opportunities and networking for PAs and secretaries.      Following her success in this role she has now been nominated for the position of European Chairman at the forthcoming AGM in Brussels in October 2007.

She regularly contributes articles to the secretarial press and is widely travelled across Europe, USA, Asia and Australia.