Supporting the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland to achieve its bold vision: a world where nature is protected, valued and loved.RZSS operates Edinburgh Zoo and Highland Wildlife Park and has a mission to save wildlife and empower people in Scotland and around the world to protect, value and love nature.

Supporting this long standing business deliver exceptional experiences to visitors and value to our owners.

Hands on leadership and business support:🔹 Change Leadership🔹 Project Delivery🔹 Business Planning and Fundraising 🔹 Change Delivery🔹 Leadership Support🔹 Leadership Coaching🔹 Stakeholder Engagement 🔹 Community and Business Engagement

Supporting High Life Highland to ‘Make Life Better’ for the population of the Highlands. Positions HeldChair June 2022 - June 2024Vice ChairChair Finance and Audit Committee

Board Chair, non executive director and advisor to the leadership team of Loch Insh Outdoor Centre

Leading the Cairngorms Business Partnership is an amazing job, it will be available soon. We are advertising for my replacement in August.We are a private sector, member led, Chamber of Commerce and Destination Management Organisation (DMO) representing the interests of our members in the beautiful and iconic Cairngorms National Park in the North of Scotland. We work in a stunning natural landscape brought to life by its vibrant communities and successful businesses.The Cairngorms National Park is an aspirational place for people to visit, live, work, learn and invest. Our role is to make it as easy as possible for people to fulfil that aspiration.We do this through our work to:-Promote the National Park as a place to visit, live, work, learn and invest through effective marketing and management of this iconic brand. We connect our members to opportunities seamlessly and work to provide an outstanding visitor experience in this key sector.Operate as a Chamber of Commerce, ensuring business across the Park get the right support to help them to grow and fulfil their potential. We do this by providing access to learning, sharing, development and networking opportunities for members. Including our annual conference in November.We represent the private sector through strong advocacy on issues most important to members operating in the Cairngorms National Park. As part of our role, we co-ordinate the delivery of the Economic Development Strategy for the National Park. Working closely with key stakeholders such as the Cairngorms National Park Authority to maximise the significant opportunities operating in the Park bring whilst working to overcome some of the structural barriers and imbalances such as the current low wage/high property value economy of the Park.We are a strong, inclusive and influential voice for the business community in the Cairngorms National Park.

Founding council member of the International Mountain Tourism Alliance, China 🇨🇳

I loved leading Community Broadband Scotland, a project that has a transformational impact on how people Live, Work & Learn in remote and rural Scotland.Digital connectivity is increasingly an essential part of our everyday lives. Being part of CBS provided me with the opportunity to work with some great people focused on finding ways to close the digital divide between the hardest to reach communities and those receiving services through the ambitious DSSB project.Working with our key partners to find innovative and pioneering ways to get those communities connected we made a huge difference to how our rural communities live, work and learn.Providing world class connectivity is one of the Scottish Government’s key priorities and I was delighted to help to drive the delivery of this ambitious agenda in our hardest to reach areas.

Responsible for driving HSBC's commercial expansion in Scotland.Recruited and led an outstanding team of commercial bankers.Personal involvement in structuring, negotiating and welcoming many new clients to HSBC.Helped build HSBC's profile in Scotland by engaging with Professionals, Industry Bodies, Government Ministers and Government Agencies.Accomplished public speaker with many speaking engagements across Scotland in the past two years.Media spokesperson for HSBC Commercial Banking in Scotland.

Establishing and building HSBC's commercial business in Kazakhstan. Responsible for building a growing sustainable business.From a very low base I built a substantial, sustainable growing business. Personally involved in shaping and securing many new deals during my two years, in a very challenging external environment.Built HSBC's profile in Kazakhstan from a very low point to an excellent brand recognition status. Represented HSBC to Government, Central Bank and other stakeholders gaining essential stakeholder support.Member of the board of the American Chamber of Commerce in Kazakhstan. Helping to promote external relations.Guest speaker / lecturer on Leadership for Post Graduate and MBA students at KIMEP, one of Kazakhstan’s leading english language universities.

Responsible for ensuring we developed and delivered a suit of learning programmes to HSBC staff across Europe.Redesigned and reshaped the learning teams and culture by developing fully integrated blended, accredited and embedded learning programmes. Particularly around Treating Customers Fairly, Commercial Skills, Negotiating and Leadership Skills.