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Together with our friends at MBM Commercial, we hosted a breakfast event last week at our FWB offices as part of our Female Founders series. Our event attracted a wonderful group of entrepreneurial leaders, all eager to hear from our three speakers who have all excelled and are at various stages of their entrepreneurial journeys [...]

Together with our friends at Burness Paull, we hosted a scale-up breakfast on "Navigating Growth," bringing together a group of financial services executives eager to listen to our speaker, David Ferguson. David is the CEO of Seccl, the Octopus backed embedded investment platform which is helping more people to invest – and invest [...] 

Today is World Environment Day, a perfect occasion to highlight the role of FWB’s sustainability series in driving thought-leadership and facilitating cross-sector dialogue on sustainability. A key part of our offering to clients and our network is the access to our network, connecting leaders from multiple industries, and the ability [...]

We are delighted to announce the launch of the Non-Executive Director Programme 2024, now in its 7th year. Created by FWB in partnership with the University of Edinburgh Business School (UEBS), this programme is designed for participants who are developing their NXD portfolios or aspiring to do so in the next phase of their executive and professional development [...]

The Executive Women In Leadership network recently held a fascinating session addressing ‘Effective Leadership, held in the offices of Baillie Gifford. The key speakers were Julie Marshall-Wilson, Chief of Staff of the Cabinet Office, Ian McAulay, until recently CEO of Southern Water and Alice Thompson, Purpose Coach and Social Bite co-founder. They all come from […]

The Executive Women in Leadership (EWIL) network recently held a topical debate on Net Zero.  We were delighted to have Amanda Young, former Chief Sustainability Officer at abrdn plc, and Dr Valentina Kretzschmar, Vice President Consulting, Climate Risk, and Strategy at Wood Mackenzie, lead a robust and challenging discussion. Valentina started by emphasising the immense […]

Together with our friends at Coutts we hosted a scale up dinner this week, bringing together a group of Non-Executive Directors, CEOs and investors. Our speaker was Tom O’Hara, CEO of Kick ICT. In 2015, along with Alan Turnbull and David Chazan, Tom established Kick ICT, which has become a distinguished leader in the IT managed service industry through a blend of organic growth and strategic acquisitions. Even before [...]

FWB and the University of Edinburgh Business School are delighted to launch their 2024 Executive Leadership Programme. Back for its fourth year, the programme was established following the successful launch of both the Executive Women in Leadership and Non-Executive Development Programmes, all of which have now supported over 600 delegates in furthering their careers. The […]

FWB are delighted to have advised on the appointment of Irene Steel, as new Chief Finance and Operating Officer for leading legal and tax planning experts, Turcan Connell. Turcan Connell Managing Partner, Gillian Crandles, comments: “We were extremely well supported by FWB in this [...]