The Board

Chairman

Crawford Gillies

Mr Gillies was appointed Chairman of Scottish Enterprise in February 2009. After graduating with an LL.B. from Edinburgh and an MBA at Harvard Business School, Crawford Gillies joined Bain, the international management consultants and became a partner in 1988. He has worked with clients throughout Europe in a wide variety of sectors on issues of strategy, organisation and performance improvement. From 1996 to 2001 he was responsible for Bain & Company's business in the UK and assumed leadership of the firm's European business from 2001 until he stepped down at the end of 2005.

He is currently a Non Executive Director of Standard Life plc, and Chairman of Control Risks Group Holdings Ltd., and Touch Bionics, a fast growing Scottish based life sciences company. He was an independent member of the DTI's Management Board and Strategy Board from 2002 to 2007. He is a former Chairman of CBI London.

Chief Executive

Lena C Wilson

Lena Wilson is Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise – Scotland’s national economic development agency.

Prior to this, Lena was Chief Operating Officer of Scottish Enterprise and the CEO of Scottish Development International, leading Scottish Enterprise in supporting companies to grow and Scottish Development International in helping to promote Scottish businesses overseas and attracting new high value investment to Scotland.

In a career spanning over 20 years, she has held a range of positions covering all aspects of economic development.

During a 2 year secondment to the World Bank in Washington DC, she worked in over 20 countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia advising governments on economic development with particular emphasis on the conditions necessary for the development of the private sector and the attraction of Foreign Direct Investment.

Lena has held a range of non-executive positions in business, arts, sports and voluntary organisations.  She is currently a board member of the Prince’s Scottish Youth Business Trust, Ambassador for the Prince and Princess of Wales Hospice, a member of the management committee of the Tartan Clef foundation, and advisory board member of the University of Strathclyde business school.

Fred Hallsworth, BAcc, CA

Fred was formerly senior client service partner and head of technology, media and telecoms for Scotland and Northern Ireland at Deloitte. He has spent his career working with entrepreneurial companies, mainly in the technology and media sectors, in Cambridge and Scotland. He has advised them at every stage in their life cycles from start-up, through growth and development, and ultimately exit by trade sale or flotation. He is a consultant to a number of technology companies in Scotland and Cambridge. He has also held many appointments, including board member of CBI Scotland, Scottish Institute for Enterprise and University of Cambridge Finance Committee. He is co-founder of the Cambridge Network. He is Chairman of Forth Dimension Displays Limited, Vice Chairman Microvisk Limited and a director of Elonics Limited, Point 35 Microstructures Limited and Central Marketing Agency Ltd. He is currently Non Executive Director Golden Charter and Metaforic and a member of The Advisory Board of Lane Clark & Peacock, Financial Dynamics Practice.

Donald MacRae

Donald MacRae is the strategy and finance director of Lloyds TSB Scotland plc. He is a member of the Scottish Executive's Economic Statistics Advisory Group, Economists Advisory Group and the Purchasers Information Advisory Group, as well as being a visiting professor at the University of Abertay, Dundee. Donald is a past chairman of Business Forum Scotland and past board member of Scottish Homes. He is also a trustee of the David Hume Institute and a member of the advisory board of Interface.

Iain A Macdonald

Iain Macdonald is an experienced Non-Executive Director with a background in information technology, in international business and as an entrepreneur. A graduate of Edinburgh and the Heriot Watt Universities, early in his career Iain was on the staff of the Scottish Council (Development and Industry) where he worked on attraction of inward investment from the US electronics industry. Trained in IT and management during 14 years with IBM, he established and developed a computer services company which was subsequently acquired by a US Corporation on whose board he served for several years. A Fellow of the Institute of Directors, he has served on the boards of more that 15 Companies or organisations ranging in size from high-tech start-ups to large US NASDAQ-listed businesses. His board experience was gained in several industry sectors and on many corporate transactions, including M&A and stock market flotations. For 5 years he was a member of the Board of the Manchester Business School and was appointed a Visiting Fellow. He is currently on the Boards of a major US Corporation with operations in Scotland, a Venture Capital Trust, a Telecommunications Services provider and the Scottish Industrial Development Advisory Board. He returned to live in Scotland in 1999 after 23 years spent in England, Italy and Belgium.

Professor Jim McDonald

Professor Jim McDonald spent seven years within the UK Electricity Supply Industry. He joined Strathclyde University in 1984, ultimately being appointed as the Rolls-Royce Professor of Electrical Power Systems in 1993. He advises government industry and commerce on power networks distributed generation and new/renewable energy, through DBERR and non-executive corporate board positions in the UK and USA. He has co-authored over 500 journal/conference papers and three books. He is Director of the Institute for Energy and Environment, the largest power engineering and energy systems research group internationally. He was appointed Deputy Principal at Strathclyde in 2006 focussing on research enhancement and commercialisation. In October 2006 he was appointed as Director of the Glasgow Research Partnership in Engineering (GRPE) part of a major research pooling investment across Scotland (circa. £100 million) by SFC and HEIs. He took up the Chairmanship of the Scottish Energy Technology Partnership in 2008. He is a member of the Scottish Science Advisory Committee and has recently become a member of the UK Trade and Investment Energy Excellence Board.

Professor McDonald is a:

• Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh
• Fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology
• Fellow of the Institute of Physics

Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea, BSC, PhD, FRSE

Professor Sir Timothy O’Shea became Principal of the University of Edinburgh in October 2002. Born in Hamburg in 1949, Professor O’Shea was brought up in London and went to school in Essex. A computer scientist, he was Master of Birkbeck College at the University of London from 1998 and Pro-Vice-Chancellor of the University of London since 2001. A graduate of the Universities of Sussex and Leeds, he has worked in the United States and for the Open University where he founded the Computer Assisted Learning Research Group and worked on a range of educational technology research and development projects. He was a Research Fellow at the University of Edinburgh, Department of Artificial Intelligence, from 1974 to 1978. His career has been characterised by a commitment to the issues of access and research.

Professor O’Shea sits on the boards of the Intermediary Technology Institute Scotland Ltd and the British Council. He is a member of the governing body of the Roslin Institute and is Convener of the Research and Commercialisation Committee of Universities Scotland. In 2004 he was elected Fellow of The Royal Society of Edinburgh.

Graeme Waddell

Graeme Waddell is Director of Energen Biogas an energy renewable company which he has recently established.   He is a former Business Director of Rolls Royce Aero Repair and Overhaul responsible for providing leadership and business focus for the 1,000 people employed by Rolls Royce in East Kilbride. Graeme is a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society and holds a BA and an MBA from the University of Strathclyde. He is married and has three children and enjoys sport of all kinds.

Ian J Crawford

After a short period working in finance in Rolls Royce Ian joined IBM as an inventory accountant in 1978 progressing through various staff and management roles in finance eventually becoming Financial Controller IBM Greenock in 1982. His career then moved into operational roles in manufacturing, logistics and supply chain and, after various senior roles in Greenock and international assignments in Paris and Raleigh, North Carolina he was appointed as Site Director IBM Greenock in 1994. His success in this position was recognised by his nomination to IBM’s Senior Leadership Team (top 300 executives in IBM) by the IBM chairman Lou Gerstner and ultimately his promotion to Vice President in 1998. He held various VP roles in IBM’s procurement operation based in Raleigh North Carolina and as Vice President Strategic Sourcing was ultimately responsible for sourcing all of IBM’s global external spend with a budget of $45B managing a team of 1500 people in over 40 countries worldwide. In August 2005 he returned to Scotland running his worldwide sourcing team from the IBM site in Greenock and once more taking over the leadership role of the location. He retired from IBM in August 2007.

He is on the Board of Directors of Riverside Inverclyde URC and a member of the Management Committee of Kilmarnock Football Club. Ian is also Chair of the Advisory Board of 2in10.

In his spare time he enjoys golf and music and has co-written and published two books on shipwrecks around the Scottish coastline.

Grahame Smith

Grahame Smith is General Secretary of the Scottish Trades Union Congress (STUC). A graduate of Strathclyde University, where he obtained an Honours Degree in Economics and Industrial Relations, he has worked at the STUC for 20 years.

He was previously Deputy General Secretary and headed the STUC’s Policy and Campaigns Department before being appointed General Secretary in December 2006.

He is a Board member of SCDI and a former member of the Church of Scotland’s Church and Society Council. He is the Vice Chairperson of Glasgow North Regeneration Agency.

In December 2007 he was appointed as a Commissioner for the UK Commission for Employment and Skills.

Professor Russel Griggs

Professor Russel Griggs started his career in the pharmaceutical industry in Marketing and then in similar areas in the consumer flooring industry before becoming the CEO of an industrial textile company.

Russel holds a number of non-executive positions in the private sector as well as running his own consultancy business which does a variety of strategic work for public bodies and private companies.

In addition he is:

• Chair of  the CBI's UK SME Council
• Chair of the Scottish Government's independent Regulatory Review Group in Scotland (which seeks to make Scotland the home of better regulation)
• Chair, Dumfries & Galloway College
• Board member of VisitScotland
• Member of the Scottish Committee of the Quality Assurance Agency
• Member of the  Industrial Injuries Advisory Council.

An honorary Professor of the University of Glasgow he is married and has two married children. He lives in Sanquhar in Dumfries and Galloway and when not working he enjoys his garden and playing with his grandson.

Iain A McLaren BA, CA

Iain was formerly Senior Partner of KPMG in Scotland. During his professional career he focussed on audit and transactions work for some of Scotland's largest listed and private companies - primarily in the energy, construction and technology sectors.

He is currently Senior Independent Director of Cairn Energy plc and a director of two investment trusts.  He is on the Court of Heriot-Watt University and a board member of SCDI as well as Vice-president of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.