Scotmas Group is an innovation driven, export led company working in the Life & Chemical Sciences sector based in the Scottish Borders. Our mission is to revolutionise water treatment and infection control practices offering a more effective, safer and environmentally neutral alternative to the bleach-based chemicals that currently make up >90% of the market.Using Chlorine DIoxide (ClO2) and our market leading dosing equipment solutions, we are currently operating in the UK, Europe and the GCC region. We have invested heavily in the developing our product range, and are now seeking investment to roll out a sales, distribution and service partnership model to serve clearly defined growth markets around the World.

FINDRA is a sustainable active lifestyle and outdoor clothing company created by Scottish Fashion designer Alex Feechan. FINDRA exists to empower women to be confident leading an active lifestyle in the outdoors. We believe in harnessing the power of community to inspire and support women to define their own goals and journeys.We deliver this through a focus and commitment to product, people, and the environment.

At BlueSky Experiences, our purpose is to inspire, reward and transform individuals and teams with an innovative mix of dynamic and thought-provoking programmes, driven by our commitment to service excellence. Now with over 30 years of combined experience, we deliver Team Building, Team Development, Personal Development and Rewards & Incentives activities up and down the UK on a weekly basis and have worked with clients in almost every sector of industry.Depending on your current needs, we can deliver one, or a mix of face to face and virtual programmes to help you address these barriers and unlock a world of untapped potential within your existing teams:• Team Building Activities | A vast range of indoor and outdoor Team Building activities, which have been designed by us, which encourages communication and team work, provides a stimulating and fun experience and maximum interaction between team members.• Team Solutions | A range of BlueSky designed engaging and fun team working activities that focus on team behaviours. • BlueSky in a Bag | 18 energisers and ice breakers all in a compact and portable bag. Benefits; adds value to the time teams spend together in meetings and at events, breaks up conferences, allows the delivery of in-house team building sessions.• Experiential Learning/High Performing Team Programmes | Stimulate natural workplace behaviours with a range of experiential learning activities in a safe and relaxed environment.• Insights Discovery | We are licensed practitioners working in collaboration with Insights, and can deliver Leadership Effectiveness, Personal Effectiveness, Team Effectiveness, Sales Effectiveness, full circle Insights Discovery profiling and deeper analysis and best practice of profiling within the workplace. It costs nothing to explore your options, and we'd love to hear from you.✉ info@blueskyexperiences.com ☎ 01738 840 80

Merlin ERD has become world leader in the design and delivery of horizontal, extended reach and complex high angle wells.Clients leverage our knowledge and techniques to make challenging wells simple, marginal projects economical and problematic operations trouble-free. Success comes from Merlin’s back-to-basics systems approach that integrates engineering fundamentals with aviation industry risk management techniques. The results speak for themselves with lower drilling costs, fewer problems, more production sooner and an up-skilled workforce with ever-increasing confidence, desire and ability to design and deliver challenging wells.Working on demanding ERD projects from Sakhalin to Australasia, the Middle East, West Africa, the North Sea and the Americas, we provide enviable access to an experience and knowledge base that others find impossible to replicate or retain. We’ve completed over 240 projects including major multi-well ERD projects in 40 countries – over 90% of our business comes from repeat or client recommendation.Whether we’re completing extended reach drilling (ERD) feasibility studies, solving wellbore instability problems or hole cleaning challenges, providing expert engineering input to client peer reviews, identifying problem root cause events or avoiding costly rig upgrades with clever engineering, our success is gained through that of our clients. Our training courses provide expert insight into critical success factors and are taught by our accomplished engineers.As key authors of the recent IADC Manual update, winners of the UK’s coveted Queen’s Award for Enterprise and the SPE (Society of Petroleum Engineers) title of Best Small Company. It is no surprise that Merlin are the go-to experts for training, engineering and operations support for important horizontal, ERD and high angle drilling projects.

Homes for Good buys and refurbishes properties, increasing the supply of good quality housing in the private rented sector and improving the standard of accommodation for vulnerable people.

The Beal Group is a Scottish textile manufacturing business serving the Defence, Oil & Gas, Airmotive, Agriculture, Automotive, Modular Buildings, Leisure and Transport sectors throughout the UK and internationally.

Helping business leaders consider climate change in board decision-making.

Membership of the President’s 1783 Network is by personal invitation, and there is no fee involved. ‘Home Team’ members, of which we have circa 350, are senior and experienced leaders within their organisations and across their sectors, operating in and from the Glasgow city region, who are ambassadors and advocates for the city – across Glasgow and beyond. The same applies for the ‘Away Team’ members, of which we have 150 members across multiple territories, who have strong affiliations to, and fondness for, Glasgow. President’s 1783 Network members say they want to be recognised as a “coalition of the willing”, the solutions-focussed ‘brains trust’ helping Glasgow City Region and its economy to flourish, to raise the profile in the international arena, and to facilitate international trade. - to encourage inward investors to consider Glasgow City region- to encourage those looking to expand or locate in the UK, to consider Glasgow- to share ideas with the Chamber about business/sector opportunities, helping broaden the outlook of those based in Glasgow to the global trends – becoming the bridge to new opportunities- to help connect co-members as appropriate for mutual benefit- to assist in spreading key city economy, Glasgow Economic Leadership and Chamber messages through members’ own networks

I was privileged to act as Chair of the Institute of Directors Glasgow and West of Scotland branch and led a team of committed volunteers helping to deliver our core belief that Better Directors build a Better World.

Rock Ventures has specialised on providing practical support for the leaders of growth companies since 2001.

Founded (1796) as ‘a place of useful learning’, entrepreneurship is in our DNA, and like any (200-year-old) start-up, the University of Strathclyde seizes opportunities, embraces change and continually strives for excellence.Since launching our Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship in 2002, acknowledged as a leading European university-based centre of entrepreneurship, we have continued to significantly enhance our entrepreneurship provision. In November 2020 we committed to further investing in and accelerating our entrepreneurial journey by launching our institution-wide entrepreneurship strategy, Strathclyde Inspire (SI)– the first of its kind in Scotland.Our vision is to create a world-leading university entrepreneurial ecosystem which does two things:1) unlocks the entrepreneurial potential of our people.2) creates an environment in which venture creation and growth thrives and delivers socio-economic impact.Leveraging our global alumni community, and our position as an anchor institution within Scotland and the UK’s broader entrepreneurial ecosystems, SI is delivered through four strategic goals:1) Developing entrepreneurial mindsets: positioning entrepreneurship as a mindset and set of behaviours that can be adopted by all;2) Identifying & supporting entrepreneurial talent: making our entrepreneurial support services easily accessible – ensuring emerging innovators are aware of the practical entrepreneurship support available to them at Strathclyde;3) Empowering entrepreneurs: providing access to our innovation-led opportunities with an unrivalled package of support at the heart of Glasgow City Innovation District (Scotland’s first innovation district), accelerating them towards investment and growth;4) Scaling innovation-driven enterprises: addressing the early-stage funding gap through significant expansion of our investment capabilities.

The Gender Index was established to create a benchmark of the current level of activity undertaken by SMEs across the UK that are owned and led by female founders.

As a market leading recruitment business with an in-depth knowledge of our specialist sectors, we work in strategic partnership with candidates and employers to deliver common goals with tenacity and integrity.Our areas of expertise are Finance and Executive Search and our knowledge in these areas is helping to make us one of the country’s fastest growing specialist recruitment businesses.We are positively disrupting the marketplace by doing things differently such as remunerating our consultants with commission, only if they have achieved exemplary customer feedback.Our team are fully engaged with supporting clients and candidates alike and are passionate about helping both of these audiences.

A heaven-sent opportunity for pre-start and start-up businesses needing funding.

Investor director as this innovative educational technology company.

Investor director at this innovative childrens travel products company.

Working purely for and in the drinking water industry with a wide range of technologies, Panton McLeod Ltd is active throughout the UK with clearly focused range of products and services.

The Voice of the Entrepreneur, The Entrepreneurial Exchange became Scotland’s leading organisation for ambitious growth oriented entrepreneurs and is one of the founding partners of Entrepreneurial Scotland.By providing opportunities to meet like minded people and share experiences of growing a business - we inspire, inform, connect and support entrepreneurs to realise their full potential and we encourage, promote and celebrate entrepreneurship, growth and wealth creation in Scotland.Established in 1995 with 50 founder members, The Exchange now has some 400 members heading-up companies with a collective turnover of over £17 billion and employing 150,000 people.Created in Sepember 2014, the coming together of The Entrepreneurial Exchange and The Saltire Foundation to create Entrepreneurial Scotland, builds on the success and reputation of both organisations to create something truly significant for Scotland – an organisation with a higher purpose for Scotland’s entrepreneurial leaders of today and tomorrow who have the ambition to create the jobs and wealth for Scotland.

Ocean power is set to provide an exciting new source of clean renewable energy and one which can contribute to global energy needs on a sustainable basis. AWS Ocean Energy is a clean-tech company at the forefront of the technological challenge to make this happen. Our business is marine energy technology: creating, commercialising and delivering enabling technologies and related services to the emerging marine energy sector through R & D, engineering and commercial expertise.