Cure Leukaemia Chief Executive James McLaughlin, has put out a call to business leaders and organisations to sign up to a ‘mission possible’ to put him out of a job, and Cure Leukaemia out of business.

Andy Street, Mayor of the West Midlands, Paul Faulkner, Chief Executive of Greater Birmingham Chamber of Commerce, Calum Nisbet, Regional Director for the IoD West Midlands and Lareena Hilton, Global Head of Brand, Communications and CSR for Deutsche Bank, have all pledged their support for our Put Us Out of Business campaign, to accelerate the search for a cure of the illness within 15 years.

The business community are invited to attend the campaign launch on Tuesday June 11th from 6pm, at KPMG Birmingham.

Guests will hear from a range of speakers including Professor Charlie Craddock CBE, Andy Street CBE and Neil Rami, Chief Executive of West Midlands Growth Company. Deutsche Bank’s Lareena Hilton and Paul Anderson will detail the bank’s two-year partnership with the charity, which is estimated to raise over £2 million in total by the end of this year.