Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership has appointed Nigel Tipple as its new CEO.

He joins the Partnership from Cornwall where he has been Chief Executive of the CPR Urban Regeneration Company for the past 6 years.

Nigel Tipple has spent his career working in economic development and has a strong track record working with both public and private sector players to bring about economic transformation in different areas of the country.

Prior to his role in Cornwall he worked for Renaissance South Yorkshire and before that, as the Objective One Programme Executive in Sheffield.

He takes up his role at the Oxfordshire Local Enterprise Partnership on 1 June 2013.