Board of Governors
Mary Brownlow |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2006 |
Employment / Business Profile: Manager/trainer in Care Industry. Previous experience in tourism industry. |
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| Position | Member |
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John Forster |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2009 |
Employment / Business Profile: Group Chairman of Forster Group |
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| Position | Chairman of the Audit Committee |
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Paul Grant |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2006 |
Employment / Business Profile: HND in Business Studies. Joined United Biscuits in 1967. Worked in 3 different divisions in 5 locations. During this period was general manager of a small business, managing director of a restaurant division, factory director of a major factory and latterly personnel director of McVities UK & Europe.
Bought MacKays from UB in 1995. Today MacKays employs 100 people with sales of £7 million. |
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| Position | Vice Chairman; Chair of the HR & Quality Committee |
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Graham Hay |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2002 |
Employment / Business Profile: An Aberdeen graduate in Economics and Politics with an MBA from Cranfield, Graham is a past Chair of the Tayside branch of the Institute of Personnel and Development. His early business career was in Finance with Massey Ferguson. Finding that people were more interesting than figures he moved into Personnel and in the motor industry he held management appointments in personnel and management development before coming to Dundee as UK Human Resources Director for Timex. In 1986 he became self employed and jointly established MSSL as an executive search and selection consultancy specialising in Purchasing & Supply Chain. Graham’s experience in multinationals and in self employment has convinced him that although qualifications are important the key to career success lies in the motivation of the individual. | |
| Position | Chairman |
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Wendy Loudon |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2012 |
Employment / Business Profile: Wendy is currently a Project Manager with Aberdeenshire Council with 20 years experience as a professional administrator. She is involved with the Dundee Historic Environment Trust and a company director. Wendy’s skills include Finance, HR, Change and Innovation. |
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| Position | Member |
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Douglas Mackintosh |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2003 |
Employment / Business Profile: Solicitor and Partner with Connelly & Yeoman in Arbroath. The company has many private clients and focuses mainly on Property, Trust & Executary work, Commercial Law and Agricultural law. Held positions such as a Council Member of the Law Society of Scotland, Chairman of the local Chamber of Commerce and President of Arbroath Rotary. |
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| Position | Member |
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Steven Mill |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2012 |
Employment / Business Profile: Steven is a Senior Service Manager in the Finance Division of Angus Council with a wide background of local government accountancy experience over the last 22 years. |
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| Position | Member |
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Pauline Murray |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2012 |
Employment / Business Profile: Pauline is a Programme Manager with the BT Group Openreach, having held a range of senior positions within BT. Pauline’s experiences include transformational change management within large complex businesses. |
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| Position | Member |
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Ann Petrie |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2011 |
Employment / Business Profile: After teaching on a number of different courses at the University of Dundee, Dr Ann Petrie became a Course Leader at Angus College in 2007. After completing her undergraduate degree she co-authored “The GIaxo’ 50 Years in Montrose“, published in 2002. Following this she successfully completed her doctoral research Scottish Culture and the First World War, 1914-1 939 in August 2006 and published J M Barrie and the First World War: Propagandist, Philanthropist and Apologist in the Scottish Association of History Teachers’ journal, as well as The 1915 Rent Strikes: An East Coast Perspective for the Abertay Historical Society in 2008. |
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| Position | Academic Staff Representative on the Board |
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David Sawers |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2003 |
Employment / Business Profile: Chief Executive, Angus Council |
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| Position | Member |
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John Smith |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2009 |
Employment / Business Profile: Farmer, Member of Scottish Land Court. Current and past Member of various agriculture/land-based bodies. |
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| Position | Member |
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Steven Watt |
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| Date Appointed: |
April 2012 |
Employment / Business Profile: Steven is currently Chief Information Officer at the University of St Andrews and is a Chartered Engineer, Chartered IT Professional and a Fellow of the British Computer Society. He has experience of working in both the Higher Education Sector and the private sector. |
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| Position | Member |
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Lorraine Young |
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| Date Appointed: |
September 2008 |
Employment / Business Profile: Senior Manager – Older People Services – Angus Council. Significant experience in social care including Senior Practitioner, Team Leader and Area Manager in Wakefield, before returning to Tayside in 1987 as Assistant Director (Community Care) for Perth and Kinross, Angus and Dundee City. She was then appointed Head of Service – Community Care in Angus; Depute Director of Social Work and Health; and now Senior Manager – Older People Services. She is Co-Chair of the ADSW Older People Sub-group, a member of the ADSW Community Care Standing Committee and Chair of the Older Persons Planning Group and the Joint Performance and Project Group. |
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| Position | Member |
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Tatiana Zorina |
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| Date Appointed: |
Employment / Business Profile: NC Admin with Finance student. |
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| Position | Student Member |
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