{"id":29307,"date":"2019-05-24T15:06:16","date_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/?p=29307"},"modified":"2019-05-24T15:13:59","modified_gmt":"2019-05-24T14:13:59","slug":"chamber-welcomes-new-committee-member","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/24\/chamber-welcomes-new-committee-member\/","title":{"rendered":"Chamber welcomes new committee member"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Naeem Arif has been appointed to the Sutton Coldfield Chamber of Commerce\u2019s executive committee.<\/p>\n<p>A long-standing Chamber member, Mr Arif is the head of consultancy firm NAC Consulting, a director at United Carpets and vice-chair of the Midlands Retail Forum.<\/p>\n<p>The father-of-four has also written five books, including his latest release \u2018Customer First\u2019, which looks at how businesses convert and retain customers through good customer service.<\/p>\n<p>Having grown up in Sutton Coldfield, Mr Arif attended Bishop Vesey\u2019s Grammar School and also represented the Royal Town\u2019s hockey and cricket clubs \u2013 becoming chairman of the latter in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Arif said: \u201cI have been a member of the Greater Birmingham Chambers of Commerce for a number of years now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn joining the Sutton Coldfield Chamber\u2019s executive committee, I will look to make use of my local knowledge in a community that I grew up in.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Arif\u2019s appointment to the committee was ratified at the Chamber\u2019s annual general meeting, which took place at Aston Wood Golf Club.<\/p>\n<p>Former president Nigel Waldron\u2019s term as honorary chairman was also confirmed for a second year.<\/p>\n<p><em>Pictured: Sutton Chamber president Katie Hale with Naeem Arif<\/em><\/p>\n<div class=\"col-sm-12\"><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Naeem Arif has been appointed to the Sutton Coldfield Chamber of Commerce\u2019s executive committee. A long-standing Chamber member, Mr Arif is the head of consultancy firm NAC Consulting, a director at United Carpets and vice-chair of the Midlands Retail Forum. The father-of-four has also written five books, including his latest release \u2018Customer First\u2019, which looks [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29310,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53,3,112],"tags":[2140,2141,1545,2139],"class_list":["post-29307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-news","category-top-stories","tag-executive-committee","tag-katie-hale","tag-naeem-arif","tag-sutton-coldfield-chamber-of-commerce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29307"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29307\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.theasiantoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}