Suffolk Chamber of Commerce has strengthened its Haverhill & District board with the addition of two leading businesspeople from the area.

Elaine Carr, owner of FlipFlop Marketing, has 30 years’ professional marketing experience. FlipFlop Marketing, founded in 2002, specialises in helping SMEs to adopt a structured approach to their marketing and has a track record of creating effective campaigns..

Lesley Whiting, a director at 1st Stop Recruitment, first went into recruitment in 1987 and started her own company 13 years later. 1st Stop offers a bespoke solution according clients’ requirements, listening, advising and agreeing solutions with them.

Paul Donno, chair of Suffolk Chamber of Commerce in Haverhill & District, said: “As well as hosting at least one great local business networking event each month and offering first-rate, money-saving member benefits, we have shown real leadership and campaigning nous over issues as diverse as getting superfast broadband into our business parks and highlighting the fact that the A1307 is not fit for business or private travel use.”

“With Elaine and Lesley we have been fortunate enough to have recruited to our board two business dynamos, whose skills, experience and knowledge of Haverhill and the villages around will add an extra and very welcome energy and purpose to what we do here and what we offer the business community.”