Alexis is Managing Director of communications company, Counter Context, and the President of Sheffield Chamber of Commerce and Industry.
Alexis has spent the last 20 years working in communications, stakeholder engagement, community consultation and policy. His experience extends across a broad range of policy areas including regeneration, housing, commercial development, transport, energy generation and infrastructure.
Alexis is one of the Founding Directors of the Sheffield Property Association (S-PA). The S-PA is the only formally constituted property association outside of London. The S-PA has over 80 members which, between them, represent £4 billion worth of assets in Sheffield and are responsible for 22,700 jobs in the city region.
Prior to returning to Sheffield Alexis spent 5 years working in Westminster working on European and trade-policy to help British exporters. He managed stakeholder engagement and research programmes in the European Union, South-East Asia, China and Sub-Saharan Africa.
During the pandemic Alexis chaired the Sheffield Covid-19 Business Response Group (BRG). The BRG involved Sheffield’s leading business networks and support organisations coming together to help respond to the business and economic challenges Sheffield faced in response to Covid-19.
He is a member of the Sheffield City Partnership Board, representing the Chamber, and also the Sheffield Culture Collective which is focussed on driving public and private sector investment into the city’s cultural sector.
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