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On the 15th February the Oil & Gas Technology Centre and FWB Park Brown hosted a dinner with 40 equity investors and corporate finance advisors to discuss the Centre’s plans for a Technology Accelerator to help stimulate innovative oil and gas technology research and development. Investors heard how the changing face of the North Sea […]

Scottish Rugby has today announced the appointment of David McMillan to its Board as an independent non-executive director, with effect from March 1 2017. David McMillan has spent the last 15 years with insurance firm Aviva plc, rising to become Chairman, Global Healthcare and CEO, Europe and India in 2013. The vacancy on the Scottish […]

above: Will Whitehorn The evening of Thursday 2nd February saw the most recent event in FWB Park Brown’s Leadership Network Series. Will Whitehorn, former President of Virgin Galactic and special advisor to Richard Branson, currently Chairman of Clyde Space, Chairman of Glasgow SEC & SSE Hydro, and Deputy Chair of Stagecoach Group Plc, addressed invited guests […]

FWB Park Brown recently hosted a session with the University of Edinburgh Business School on how social media specifically impacts Non Executive Directors – in relation to its relevance to the business boards they sit on and their corporate responsibilities, as well as its relevance to them as individuals running their own portfolios. Keeping up with […]

FWB Park Brown are proud to have assisted international premium spirits company Edrington with the appointment of a new Non-Executive Director, Crawford Gillies, to their board. Willie Finlayson of FWB Park Brown commented ‘we were delighted to advise The Edrington Group on this key appointment and wish both parties every success with it’. For the […]

Celtic PLC is pleased to announce that it has appointed Sharon Brown as a non-executive director of the Company on 09 December 2016, with immediate effect. Sharon is currently a non-executive director of McColl’s Retail Group plc, Fidelity Special Values Plc and F&C Capital & Income Investment Trust plc. Between 1998 and 2013, Sharon was […]

The Executive Women’s Leadership Development Programme concluded on Wednesday with a celebratory dinner where the Guest Speaker was Barbara Cassani who flew specially straight from the US as she was so impressed with the programme. Barbara set up BA’s budget airline Go Fly which she then sold to Easyjet, was the first director of the […]

At an awards ceremony in London last night Edinburgh was awarded the accolade of being the UK’s most entrepreneurial city. Scott attended the awards in his role as President of The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. Commenting on the successful evening Scott said “it was a great night topped off by the award for the city”.

The Executive Women’s Leadership Development Programme met for their ninth session on Wednesday 2nd of November. The session was focussed on Teams and Decision Making and the group welcomed two very distinguished guest speakers in Benny Higgins, CEO of Tesco Bank and Birna Einarsdottir, CEO of Islandsbanki in Iceland. Benny spoke first and gave an […]