Bruce Hydes, Founding Director, Edgar Stewart Selection Ltd, 39
Choosing to leave a job in recruitment, Bruce built a new start up professional services recruitment business. This was originally set up in South...
Sam Trett, Director, LoCa Beverages Ltd., 27
Having taken LoCa’s first product, Minus 33, from concept to launch in 2015, LoCa Beverages has grown from strength to strength under the direction...
Luke Johnson, CEO, Cognitive Geology, 36
Luke Johnson founded Cognitive Geology in 2014 to develop specialist geoscience software to the petroleum industry. An end user from a super-major oil company...
Robert Cowman, Engineering Director, EC-OG, 39
Rob has worked within a variety of different sized companies over the course of 18 years. This has allowed him to develop an excellent...
Bruce Walker, Founder/CEO, WeAreTheFuture, 22
Founder and CEO Bruce Walker has lead WeAreTheFuture to the successful achievement of the following awards:
Highly Commended Best Small Business 2015
IPSE 15 for 2015
TEDx...
Dr. Ravinder Dahiya, Reader in Electronics Engineering, University of Glasgow, 39
(Note: Co-I = Co-Investigator, PI = Primary Investigator)
Dr. Ravinder Dahiya is Director of the Electronics Systems Design Centre at the University of Glasgow and...
Pete Swift, Director, Scot-Tech Engagement, 31
Pete is responsible for harnessing tech news, views and opinions via comprehensive research and creating compelling conference agendas, these events attended by the IT...
Barry Park, Managing Director, OEM Group, 33
Barry founded OEM Diesel Products with a £40,000 director’s loan aged just 28, and has since dedicated his life to making the business a success.
Over...
Kendra Byers, Managing Director, Startedinburgh, 23
Kendra Byers first experience of success came about with the completion of her University degree in Festival and Event Management with Entrepreneurship in which...
Matthew O’Hare, International Executive, Scottish Enterprise, 25
Matthew is currently responsible for delivering Executive level support on strategic briefings, speeches, events and media/comms to the First Minister, Scottish Government Ministers and...
Aqib Pervaiz, Founder & Ceo, RapidTechSolutions, 19
Aqib started started his first company when he was 15 - RapidTechSolutions (A tech company that deals with Web Design, Software Development, Web Hosting...
Scott Whyte, Managing Director, Watermans Accident Claims and Care, 34
As managing director and owner, Scott is responsible for the overall running of Watermans on a daily basis. He sets targets and budgets for...
Kallum Russell, Chief Enterprise Officer, Acorn Enterprise, 26
Acorn Enterprise works with individuals to develop: confidence, clarity and business skills. In doing so, they help overcome the many barriers they face when...
Pete Docherty, Head of People Solutions, MBN Solutions, 34
Pete has very quickly gravitated from a Consultant role with MBN Solutions to assuming authority for all recruitment operations in his role as Head...
Andrew Brown, Director, Brown & Brown Architects, 33
Andrew is responsible for the design output of Brown + Brown Architects, and has been responsible for the steady growth of the practice since...
Brian McEwan, Programme Manager – Bridge 2 Business, Young Enterprise Scotland, 37
Brian is the Bridge 2 Business Programme Manager and a member of the Senior Leadership Team at Young Enterprise Scotland.
A recent teaching background in...
Lucy-Rose Walker, Co-founder and Chief Entrepreneuring Officer (CEO), Entrepreneurial Spark, 36
Lucy-Rose Walker is co-founder and Chief Entrepreneuring Officer (CEO) at Entrepreneurial Spark. Since it was established in 2011 Entrepreneurial Spark has become one of...
John Durrant, CEO & co-founder, Juggling Swords, 32
John is the CEO and co-founder of Juggling Swords - an East Lothian content marketing agency.
Since the company launch in May 2014 (with no...
Neil McLennan, Senior Lecturer & Director of Leadership Programmes, University of Aberdeen, 36
Neil has worked at the forefront of business and education engagement and impact over the last ten years. Neil has led national policy, local...
Kenny Lowe, Head of Emerging Technologies, brightsolid, 34
Kenny Lowe is Head of Emerging Technologies at brightsolid. Having worked at the company for six years, his role is to define and deliver...
Heidi Barnes, Entrepreneur Strategy Manager, Royal Bank of Scotland, 26
Heidi’s role as Entrepreneur Strategy Manager involves programme development, project management & stakeholder management across the banks entrepreneur strategy across the UK.
A key component...
Laura Etko, Owner, Laura’s Gym Ltd, 34
Laura Etko started the gym believing that she would work part time delivering a few children’s fitness classes a week.
Seven years later, the Kid’s...
Matthew Leonard, Student at the University of St Andrews, 22
Matthew Leonard is a final year MA International Relations student at the University of St Andrews. Whilst at University, Matthew co-founded the St Andrews...
Julie Clark-Spence, Partner, Balfour+Manson, 38
Julie Clark-Spence joined Balfour + Manson, one of Scotland's leading law firms in 2007, and was promoted to partner in 2014.
She heads up the...
Leah Hutcheon, CEO & Founder, Appointedd, 36
Leah Hutcheon is the founder and CEO of Appointedd, an Edinburgh-based startup revolutionising the way businesses sell their timeslot appointments online.
Appointedd’s cloud based online...
Yekemi Otaru, Managing Director, YO! Marketing Limited, 37
Yekemi is Managing Director at YO! Marketing, a marketing consultancy that provides strategic marketing services to engineering and advanced manufacturing companies.
Prior to launching YO!...
Daniel Halliday, Finance Director, TenTel Ltd., 30
Graduating with a degree in mathematics from the University of Edinburgh, Daniel joined KPMG on their graduate program in 2007. Qualifying as a Chartered...
Ryan Crighton, Director of Marketing, Aberdein Considine, 31
Ryan is a director at Scottish law firm Aberdein Considine with responsibility for marketing the firm’s three divisions – property, legal and financial services.
In...
Craig Buchan, Founder & Managing Director, Qpal, 24
Taking Qpal from a business idea to business opportunity by growing the business through the first 8 months of 2016.
Developing an innovative and disruptive...
Leanne McDonald, Recruitment Director, Cammach Recruitment, 36
Leanne joined Cammach Recruitment in June 2008 as its first employee in the role of Recruitment Consultant.
She quickly progressed to Recruitment Manager where she...
Myles Edwards, Founder, Gathimba Edwards Foundation, 27
Myles first travelled to Kenya as an athlete in 2011 and during his third spell there in 2013 visited a children's home which was...
Donna Hutchison, Operations Director, Quensh Specialists Limited, 36
Delivering profitable numbers safely is a primary objective for all businesses and Donna created Quensh in 2006 to do just that. Donna started Quensh...
Murray Kerr, Managing Director, SengS Subsea Engineering Solutions Ltd, 35
Murray Kerr developed and built a multi million pound company with no external support within a 4 year period. His business has gone from strength...
Dominic Taddei, Managing Director, Mortgage Advice Bureau Scotland, 39
Dominic started Clear Mortgage Solutions (CMS) in 2004 after working in direct sales. It was quickly apparent he was good at selling and had...
Stuart Lawson, Managing Director, AISUS Offshore, 30
Stuart has been an integral part in the success of AISUS. When he set up the business in 2013, with his four fellow founders,...
Peter Walker, General Manager, Meldrum House, 36
Under Peter Walker's guidance, Meldrum House has collected various awards over recent years -
Rising Star of the Year at the Scottish Hotel Awards in...
Gavin Henry, Managing Director, Suretec Systems Ltd, 38
In 2003 Gavin started Suretec Systems Ltd and through developments and further collaboration, this company has become the only telecoms provider in Aberdeen to...
Tom McDonald, Managing Director, Exsel Group, 32
Tom has built Exsel Group over the last two years from a sub £100k business with 3 people to a 50 plus man company...
Colin Hewitt, CEO and founder, Float, 39
Colin Hewitt has a passion for business, developing people, and leadership.
He thrive on working on difficult problems within in a team context.
After founding digital...
Andrew Dobbie, Director, MadeBrave, 35
Andrew Dobbie is a director of MadeBrave, an award-winning brand-led digital creative agency based in Glasgow.
Andrew started MadeBrave back in 2012 when he left...
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Interviews
Interview: Louise MacLean of Signature Pubs – a day in the life
Louise MacLean, head of sales, marketing and PR at the Signature Pub Group, is an industry veteran having started as a graduate trainee with...
Interview: Bruce Hydes of Edgar Stewart. The changing face of recruitment
Home to three leading specialist brands in the Scottish recruitment sector, namely Talented, Edgar Stewart and Cyrus Selection, ESS Holdings (Edinburgh) Ltd is a...
Interview: Neil Logan, CEO of Incremental Group
Hot on the heels of announcing that digital technology specialist Incremental Group had successfully secured £500,000 of Regional Selective Assistance (RSA) support from Scottish...
Interview – Digital forensics specialist leading the attack against cyber crime
Ian Stevenson, CEO of Cyan Forensics, is a computer scientist by training, and has spent the last 20 years in and around startups, first...
Interview : Recruitment professional matches tech graduates to jobs using algorithms
Joe Afif, founder & managing director of graduate recruitment jobsite Gradit, is a self confessed “millennial“ whose big idea was sparked while working in...
Columnists
Ian Stirling: How to build a distillery in Edinburgh part 2 – Capacity
Fascinated that someone was writing a diary blog about their proposed £5m new Edinburgh distillery project, we asked Ian Stirling of Port of Leith...
Laura Sutherland – 9 top tips for mobile marketing
Aura PR’s Laura Sutherland looks at the opportunities which lie in mobile marketing. The mobile has climbed the ladder to be one of the...
Yekemi Otaru: 12 engaging ideas for engineering companies
Even in so-called boring industries, there is great content.
But finding new content ideas can be a real problem for marketing teams. Particularly in engineering...
Ian Stirling: How to build a distillery in Edinburgh part 1 – Three things
Fascinated that someone was writing a diary blog about their proposed £5m new Edinburgh distillery project, we asked Ian Stirling of Port of Leith...
Kieran O’Connor: Top 10 Life Lessons For Engineers
1. Some things will always take longer than you first think
Hofstadter's Law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into...