Well-known Wexford businessman Karl Fitzpatrick was elected as the President of Wexford Chamber at its Annual General Meeting in The Talbot Hotel last week. 
Mr Fitzpatrick (38), Managing Director of Chevron Training & Recruitment on Anne Street, is one of the youngest Presidents in the Chamber’s 180 year history.
Mr. Fitzpatrick has succeeded Martin Doyle as President of Wexford Chamber and commended Martin on the great success that he has achieved for the Chamber during his tenure. The AGM also saw the election of Niall Reck of Graphedia as Vice President, in addition to the election of three new board members; Karen O’Connor of Datapac, Andrew Owen of Bank of Ireland and Catherine Murphy of PWC.
Welcoming Karl as President, Madeleine Quirke, CEO of Wexford Chamber said: “Karl will bring new ideas to the Chamber and will, no doubt, build on the success the organisation has achieved to date.” 
Karl has been very active in business and community life in recent years. In addition to his training and recruitment business, he is the Master Franchisee for Bricks 4 Kidz Ireland while he also presents the “Business Matters” programme on South East Radio.
Mr. Fitzpatrick stated that his goal as President of Wexford Chamber is to “work with existing businesses to explore opportunities that will maximize their revenue potential and to use the available property portfolio to attract new businesses to Wexford.”
Pointing out that according to the website Daft.ie there are over one hundred commercial properties for lease in Wexford town and his aim will be to work with local auctioneers to identify ideal businesses to occupy these buildings.
In order to achieve this he aims to reach out to both industry associations and other Chambers to promote these property solutions to their members.
Focusing on existing businesses, Mr Fitzpatrick said that through the Chamber he  plans to introduce a series of workshops which will enable participants to develop new online sales channels through Amazon, eBay and e-tenders. Tackling the issue of access to credit for SMEs will also be high on the agenda for Wexford Chamber in 2016.

Out-going president Martin Doyle hands over the chains to newly elected president Karl Fitzpatrick after last week’s AGM.