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The Scottish Business Resilience Centre (SBRC) has announced the appointment of Jude McCorry as its next Chief Executive. Jude will join SBRC in April, taking over from Eamonn Keane who has been acting in the role since Mandy Haeburn-Little stepped down in August last year. Jude joins the SBRC from The Data Lab (Scotland’s Innovation […]

On 22nd January, FWB Park Brown and Deloitte hosted a Data Insights round table Dinner with speakers Jarmo Eskelinen, Director of the Data Driven Innovation (DDI) initiative for the Edinburgh and South East Scotland City Deal, and Andy Gauld, Partner and leader of Deloitte’s ‘Insights Driven Organisation (IDO)’ proposition. The explosion in the amount of data being created today has been […]

The UK Entrepreneur of the Year (EOY) Programme has been developed by EY with the objective of identifying and celebrating those entrepreneurs who are building and leading successful businesses. The winners from Scotland participate in the UK programme with the opportunity, if successful of taking part in the EY World Entrepreneur of the Year competition. […]

Souter Investments has completed the acquisition of a majority stake in Stone Group, the leading ICT services provider, in an equity and debt refinancing of the business led by CEO Simon Harbridge and its management team. Adam Brown of FWB Park Brown commented “We were delighted to support Souter Investments by conducting a management due […]

HBD (formerly known as Henry Boot Developments) has appointed Matt Bellshaw as its new Director for Scotland and has also promoted Nigel Munro to Project Director in Scotland. Matt joins from HFD Group where he was part of the team developing the Bothwell Exchange office development. Nigel has been with HBD for four years and […]

On Thursday 28th November, Apollo and FWB Park Brown collaborated on the latest of a series of successful Thought Leadership dinners, welcoming over 50 senior leaders to the Chester Hotel, Aberdeen. Kirsty Blackman MP (Aberdeen North) and Deirdre Michie (Chief Executive, OGUK) led the evening’s discussion. Following on from our last thought leadership event and […]

Glasgow headquartered Walker Group has appointed Amanda Robertson as Commercial Director and Paul Carnie as its new Finance Director. Established in 1979 Walker Group manufacture precision components for Aerospace, Space and Defence sectors, employing around 250 staff across manufacturing locations in Scotland, England and Poland. Amanda joins from Stoneridge Electronics, manufacturer of electronic components for […]

Will Whitehorn has been appointed as the next Chair of Edinburgh Health Tech firm Craneware. Whitehorn, former Corporate Affairs Advisor to Sir Richard Branson and the first President of Branson’s Virgin Galactic, will succeed current Chair George Elliot from the 1st of January 2020. Founded in 1999, Edinburgh headquartered, Craneware develop financial and enterprise software […]