HIE board member profiles
Date: 12 March 2010
Author: anna.miller
Last updated: 17/02/2010 11:47
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William Roe, chair Willy Roe has been Chair of Highlands and Islands Enterprise since September 2004. He also chairs the board of the government agency, Skills Development Scotland; and is Scotland Commissioner on the UK Commission for Employment and Skills. He is a member of the Innovation Programmes Committee of NESTA, the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts. He is a non-executive board member of the Department for Work and Pensions agency, the Pension, Disability and Carers Service. Travel and Subsistence 2010 |
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Sandy Cumming CBE, chief executive Sandy Cumming was appointed HIE’s Chief Executive in November 2000. He started working with the predecessor agency, the Highlands and Islands Development Board in 1973. He later became Head of Natural Resources and then a strategic planner, working on policy formulation in preparation for the launch of HIE in 1991. He then spent two years as Director of Natural Resources before taking up an appointment as Chief Executive of Ross and Cromarty Enterprise in 1993. Five years later he returned to HIE to lead its Growing Businesses Group. He is an Edinburgh University graduate with a BSc Honours in Agricultural Economics. Sandy is a member of the National Economic Forum, the Strategic Forum, the Scottish Energy Advisory Board, and the Convention of the Highlands and Islands. He is also a member of Scottish Development International's Management Board, and the Scottish Government’s Public Bodies Strategic Group and Strategic Group on Economic Recovery. Sandy Cumming - Register of Interest - October 09 |
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Steve Thomson Steve has followed a career in consulting and investment banking with Burson Marsteller, USB Philips & Drew and then latterly as Managing Director of Credit Suisse First Boston. Following a global career located in a number of countries, in 1999 he took over a small business providing international clients with intelligence and analysis of the Russian and CIS aviation sector. The business has employees on a global basis and relocated to Tiree with Steve and his family in 2004, where it continues to operate. Steve has become increasingly involved in a number of community ventures including Tiree Community Broadband and Tiree Renewable Energy Limited and Our Power based in Cairndow run by local charity 'Here We Are'. Travel and Subsistence 2009 |
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Professor Mary Bownes OBE Professor Mary Bownes joined the Board in April 2008. She is Vice Principal and Professor of Developmental Biology at the University of Edinburgh with strategic responsibility for post graduate students, research training, widening participation, admissions and recruitment of undergraduate students, community relations and sustainability. She was previously Head of the Institute of Cell and Molecular Biology at the University of Edinburgh and has undertaken research in Germany and California. She is a member of the University of the Highlands and Islands Millennium Institute Research Committee, a member of the Scottish Funding Council Skills Committee, is chair of the Young People's Committee, and on the executive committee of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, and has, until recently been Chair of the Studentships and Fellowships Panel, and a member of the Strategy Board for the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC). |
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Angus Mackenzie Angus Mackenzie is a Chartered Accountant and previously a partner in Ernst & Young. He has experience in establishing and running small businesses as Joint Managing Director of Spoff (Scotland) Ltd, a company manufacturing premium quality muesli, as well as having helped set up and run Brin Herb Nursery with his wife. Angus Mackenzie - Register of Interests - January 2010 Travel and Subsistence 2009 |
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Professor Lorne Crerar Professor Lorne Crerar LLB (Hons) NP joined the Board in April 2008. He is a founding partner and Chairman of leading Scottish commercial law firm Harper Macleod LLP, which has offices in Glasgow, Edinbugh and Inverness. He has held the part-time Chair of Banking Law at Glasgow University since 1997. Lorne has broad experience of public sector operations. He was formerly Deputy Chairman of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow and one of three Chairmen of the Housing Improvement Task Force with his group completing their work in 2002. He sits on the appointed implementation team for the single survey process, one of his task force proposals. He was appointed as Convener of the Standards Commission in June 2003 (under the Ethical Standards in Public Life (Scotland Act 2000). Lorne resigned from this office in September 2006 to take up the Chair of the ‘Independent Review of Regulation, Audit, Inspection and Complaints Handling of Public Services in Scotland’ which reported in September 2007. Lorne is a non-Executive Director of the Scottish Government Justice Programme Board, and resides in Glasgow and Gairloch, Wester Ross. Lorne Crerar - Register of Interest - October 2009 |
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Jim Royan OBE Jim Royan joined the Board in April 2008. He operates Scotland’s oldest family butchers business in Elgin. He was a Commissioner in the Meat and Livestock Commission from 1978-95 and for the last fourteen years has fulfilled leadership roles in the NHS in Scotland including that of Chair of NHS Grampian from 2001- 2007. Jim has extensive experience in the private and public sectors and is on the board of Quality Meat Scotland. Travel and Subsistence 2009 |
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Craig Spence Craig was raised on his family farm just outside Kirkwall. In 1997 he graduated in Accounting from Napier University in Edinburgh, and returned to Orkney. A former hotel co-owner, he is a partner in a property and high-quality self-catering business based in Kirkwall. He also has business interests in Europe and Canada. Craig is a non-executive director of NHS Orkney, Chairman of Orkney Children's Panel and a member of the Orkney Public Sector Reform Board. A keen football fan, he is also a member of Orkney Flying Club. Travel and Subsistence 2009 |
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