The Lord-Lieutenant of Lancashire, The Lord Shuttleworth KG KCVO, has announced the appointment of Khalid Saifullah, Managing Director of Star Tissue UK Limited, as Deputy Lieutenant of Lancashire, with effect from 17 April 2019.
He will join the existing team of Deputies who help and support the Lord-Lieutenant in his duties as Her Majesty The Queen’s representative in the county of Lancashire.
Blackburn-based Khalid was awarded the Queens Award for Enterprise Promotion in 2011, and was featured in the Guardian’s annual poll of the 50 ‘most influential people in the North of England’. As well as MD of Star Tissue, he is a Director of the Lancashire Enterprise Partnership, and Trustee of Minority Enterprise Development Trust.
Khalid said: “I am both greatly honoured and humbled to have been selected to serve my home county of Lancashire as a Deputy Lieutenant. I will continue to work hard to represent all that is great about Lancashire. I look forward to supporting Lord Shuttleworth and his team in their forthcoming duties.”
