The soon-to-be-appointed new Chief Executive of Wenta (Watford Enterprise Agency) has been named as Steve McAteer who will take up his post on February 1.

Steve is currently a Director of Deyton Bell Ltd and was previously Partnerships and Communications Director at Exemplas. He has also been a Non-Executive Director on the main Wenta board since 2009.

He said: "I am very much looking forward to this new role. My focus will be on business development, business and marketing strategy for the future and ensuring that we balance the commercial opportunities available to us and Wenta’s ultimate social purpose of supporting start-up businesses in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire."

Following Steve’s instalment in the post, Chris Pichon will step back from his active role at Wenta and will concentrate on chairing the Wenta main board and the National Enterprise Network board.

Wenta is the leading enterprise agency for Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire. The new appointment will play a key role in the continuation of delivering business start-up support, mentoring, training and business premise services to the local region.