Tracey Wallis is relishing the challenge as events/sponsorship manager with the North East Chamber of Commerce.

Heading the events team, she will be organising occasions such as the annual Teesside and Newcastle Chamber dinners, golf tournaments, celebrity lectures and a host of networking events.

Tracey, 29, joins the chamber after gaining experience in marketing, customer services and promotions with Natwest, Telewest, Acxiom and Glaxo Wellcome.

She said: "I'm really looking forward to the challenge. It's an excellent opportunity to put the skills I have developed to the test while adding to my experience."

Arriva plc, the transport services organisation, has announced the appointment of EUAN CAMERON to the new position of managing director, UK Rail Division. The group operates two rail franchises, Merseyrail Electrics and Northern Spirit, and is developing its bid for the new Trans-Pennine Express franchise.

Mr Cameron will join the group's main board as an executive director on May 3, 2001 on expiry of his restrictive covenants with National Express Group and Prism Rail. Mr Cameron was previously group operations director and a member of the board of Prism Rai,l and also managing director of WAGN and C2C Train Operating Companies. He worked for British Rail until privatisation in 1997, finishing as group commercial director, BRB. He then joined Go Ahead as managing director of its train operating companies. Mr Cameron, 47, who is married with two children, has an MA(Hons) in Economics from Edinburgh.

Ropers Caravan World has appointed LAVINIA NICHOLSON as its new customer care and service administrator. Her appointment is part of the expansion at Ropers following the installation of new IT systems and the growth of the service department. Lavinia, of Romanby, Northallerton, joins the family-run firm from Pipeline Engineering, in Catterick Bridge, where she was a secretary and receptionist.

STUART MILLINGTON is the new technical manager at Tyneside bakers Greggs. The 32-year-old will set up a technical department encompassing quality assurance, hygiene and product development.