Anne-Marie Mountifield

Anne-Marie Mountifield has been the Chief Executive and Board Director at the Solent Local Enterprise Partnership (LEP) for the last 7 years. She leads the team in working collaboratively with partners across the Solent Local councils, businesses, colleges and the Universities to help shape the region’s future economic growth. Her role is to direct the Solent LEP towards its objective to make the Solent a £30 billion economy by 2020, whilst working to deliver an investment plan for the area worth £1.51 billion over the same period.

A member of the Institute of Directors, and the National Maritime UK Council she is also a 'Women in Maritime' ambassador. Anne-Marie actively strives to promote opportunities available to women in this industry, and also has a passion for promoting the Science, Technological, Engineering and Mathematic (STEM) related industries to young women. 

Before taking up the role as Chief Executive at Solent LEP, and for more than 20 years of her career, Anne-Marie held senior executive leadership posts in Further Education, the Civil Service (for the Department of Business Innovation and Skills) and local government.

Expertise: Sulphur 2020, Infrastructure, Regulation, Shipping emissions, Technology, Trade, Vessel operation, Safety, Training, Supply chains, Careers, Marketing and communications