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The Board

Chairman

Sir John Ward CBE, FRSE, FIET, FRSA

Sir John Ward was appointed Chairman of Scottish Enterprise in February 2004. After a long career with IBM in the UK, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, he returned to Scotland where his current appointments include chairmanship of Dunfermline Building Society and European Asset Trust NV.

He is a Chartered Accountant and was educated at the Edinburgh Academy and Fettes College. He has been awarded a range of honorary doctorates, and is a Trustee of the National Museums of Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, The Institute of Engineering and Technology, the Royal Society of Arts and Manufacturers, and the Institute of Bankers. In 1995 he was awarded the CBE, and received a knighthood in 2002 for services to public life in Scotland.

Chief Executive

Jack Perry

Jack Perry became Chief Executive of Scottish Enterprise in February 2004. Before then he was the managing partner of Ernst & Young in Glasgow, and Regional Industry Leader for Scotland and Northern Ireland for Ernst & Young’s Technology and Communications practice. A graduate scientist, Jack is also a Chartered Accountant and a United States Certified Public Accountant. In a career covering many professional disciplines and industries, he has also served as Chairman of CBI Scotland. Jack is also a member of the General Convocation of the University of Strathclyde, Chairman of TMRI Ltd and sits on the board of Craigholme School (company limited by guarantee).

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.

Barbara Duffner OBE, FRSA

Barbara Duffner was Head of Personnel North for Royal Mail until she took early retirement at the end of March 2004. She is a board member of the Student Loan Company, a member of the Judicial Appointments Board Scotland and sits on the Fitness to Practice Panel of the General Dental Council. She is a public interest member of the Council of the Institute of Chartered Accountants Scotland, a member of the conduct committee of the Royal Institute of Chartered Surveyors and has joined the Court of the University of Glasgow.

Barbara is also an Employment Tribunal member. She was a member of the Welfare to Work Task Force and chaired the review of the Careers Service in Scotland which led to the creation of Careers Scotland and the transfer of responsibility for ensuring the provision of all age guidance to Scottish Enterprise and Highland and Island Enterprise. Barbara was awarded an OBE in 2002.

Charlie Morrison

Charlie Morrison is Chairman of Green Oak Solutions, a software and IT services company.

He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland, and is a Companion of the Chartered Management Institute.

Charlie previously spent 28 years with IBM where he held a range of European and corporate management and executive positions including running the IBM site at Greenock for five years and Worldwide Server Manufacturing. Latterly he was Vice President of IBM’s IT Service Delivery Division in Europe, based in Paris.

Pat Denzler

Pat Denzler spent 30 years in the hospitality sector owning a succession of restaurants and a country hotel. She became a Director of Edinburgh Tourist Board in 1995 and President of Leith Chamber of Commerce from 2000 to 2002. She set up and chaired Leith Chamber Millennium Trust Fund, a charity set up to assist young people in Leith access personal development opportunities. She is a founder member of the Edinburgh Restaurateurs' Association where she served as treasurer. Currently an Assistant on the Master's Court of the Merchant Company of Edinburgh, she sits on the Education and Enterprise Liaison Committee and is a Governor of Erskine Stewart's Melville Schools. She is a Trustee of the Royal Yacht Britannia, match secretary of Edinburgh Ladies Archery Club and chairs Leith Rules Golf Society.

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 and Microvisk Limited and a director of Elonics Limited, Point 35 Microstructures Limited, Central Marketing Agency Ltd and AT Communications plc.

Douglas Lamb

Douglas Lamb is joint managing director of the Boxshop Ltd, a manufacturer of corrugated cardboard boxes and packaging. He founded the company in 1986. He is involved in the Scottish Business in the Community's Partners in Leadership programme, chairman of Kelvin Business Watch and a member of his local school board.

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.

Colin McClatchie

Colin was Managing Director Scotland and Ireland of News International Newspapers, retiring in 2007. He was appointed to the Board of Scottish Enterprise in 2004 and is Chairman of the Board’s Nominations and Remuneration Committees. He was previously a director of Scottish Enterprise Glasgow, a director of Scottish Networks International and Chairman of the Scottish Society of Epicureans. In February 2008 he became Chairman of Scottish Opera having been a director since 2003 and Vice Chairman since 2004. He is on the board of St Columba’s School, Kilmacolm. Colin is also a non executive director at Beattie Communications and Dunfermline Press group.

Ray Perman

Ray Perman is a member of the Board of Scottish Enterprise and is Chairman of Social Investment Scotland, which makes loans to the social economy. He chairs the Small Business Investment Taskforce for the DTI and is an adviser to the Scottish Government on enterprise education. He is a member of the court of Heriot Watt University and a trustee of the Stewart Ivory Foundation, a charity supporting financial education in Scotland. He is Chairman of Good Practice Ltd, the leading provider of HR management toolkits over the Internet. Ray is also on the board of Inner Ear Ltd.

Ray was chief executive of Scottish Financial Enterprise, the representative organisation for the Scottish financial services sector, from January 1999 to April 2003.

He started his working life as a journalist on newspapers including The Times and the Financial Times, before co-founding the business magazine company Insider Publications Ltd in 1983. The company was sold to Trinity Mirror plc in 1999.

He was a director of the company which bought the Herald and Glasgow Evening Times from Lonrho, from 1994 until its acquisition in 1996.

From 2000-2004 he was Chairman of the Scottish Advisory Council of the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) and a member of the board of trustees of WWF UK.