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Edinburgh-headquartered agritech business, Intelligent Growth Solutions (IGS), has announced the appointment of Sarah Willis as its first Chief Financial Officer. Founded in 2013 IGS is an agritech and smart space solutions business whose core mission is to create optimal conditions for vertical farming through a commercially viable model based on highly controlled technology solutions. Sarah […]

Forth Ports has announced the appointment of Michelle Primrose as Group HR Manager. One of the largest port operators in the UK, Forth Ports employs around 1,100 staff and operates eight ports across the UK including London’s largest port, Tilbury, and Scotland’s largest port, Grangemouth. A chartered MCIPD, Michelle brings a wealth of experience to […]

Catering social enterprise Scran Academy have announced the appointment of Darrell Williams as their new Chief Executive. Scran Academy, supports some of the most vulnerable young people to transition beyond the classroom into the workplace and wider life. They offer young people a unique yet critical pre-work and pre-apprenticeship development journey within a real life […]

FWB Park Brown Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director, Judy Wagner, last week completed a 21 mile charity run to celebrate 21 years since the foundation of the Salvesen Mindroom Centre. Judy’s achievement is part of the Salvesen Mindroom Centre’s ‘Walk in my Shoes’ campaign, created to reflect the journey of the children, young people and families […]

In an interview with Scott Wright at The Herald Scotland, Sandy Begbie, Chief Executive of Scottish Financial Enterprise and Chair of the Scottish HR Leadership Group (SHRLG), warned of the danger of young people drifting further from the workplace in the aftermath of the coronavirus pandemic. Having recently produced the Young Person’s Guarantee report on […]

Scottish Cycling has announced the appointment of Nick Rennie as its new Chief Executive. The national governing body for cycling in Scotland, Scottish Cycling works hard to develop the sport across multiple disciplines and at all levels, from grass roots to the performance development programmes which feed into the Great Britain Cycling Team and Team […]

In episode 5 of our joint podcast with Apollo, Stuart and Jonathan speak with Tom Baxter, Senior Lecturer at the University of Aberdeen and Ian Phillips, Development Director at Pale Blue Dot Energy about the use of hydrogen as an energy vector. Does hydrogen have potential as a centralised source of energy, or does it […]

Renewable energy supplier, Good Energy Group PLC, has announced the appointment of Nigel Pocklington as its next Chief Executive. Good Energy is a generator and supplier of 100% renewable power and an innovator in energy services. It currently owns two wind farms, six solar farms and sources electricity from a community of 1,600 independent UK […]

Federation of Scottish Theatre (FST) has appointed Fiona Sturgeon Shea as its new Chief Executive Officer. FST is the membership and development body for professional dance, opera and theatre in Scotland. Fiona joins FST from Playwrights’ Studio, Scotland where she was Creative Director. Over the course of her career Fiona has worked in senior roles […]