Mainland elected to chairmanship of IPR City group

The IPR’s City and Financial group has elected Neil Mainland,

managing director of Mainland Public Relations, as its chairman.

Selected by the group’s 12 member committee last week, he took up the

new post immediately.

He takes over from Stuart Prosser, head of public relations in the Royal

Bank of Scotland’s corporate and institutional banking division.

Mainland will continue to address the unresolved debate on the issue of

regulation of the financial PR industry during his two-year term as

chairman.

He said ’I will also be picking up on three themes, education and

training, membership recruitment and administration and will focus on

making the group run efficiently.’

The City and Financial group has a membership of over 500. Mainland has

been a member of the group’s committee for the past two years.