Martin Campbell Tax Specialist Anderson Strathern LLP Martin is a qualified lawyer and a chartered tax adviser who provides practical tax compliance and planning advice to a wide range of clients. Martin is accredited by the Law Society of Scotland as both a specialist in private client tax and in trusts law and also sits on their Tax Law Sub-Committee. Martin provides specialist tax compliance and planning advice to the Employment department. His work in this area includes providing tailored advice on employment status, the application of the IR35 rules, the structuring of contracts for services, contractor’s/employee’s remuneration packages, employee incentive schemes, salary sacrifice schemes, compromise agreements and termination packages. | |
Alan Chambers MBE Alan Chambers MBE is a polar adventurer who, after spending five years researching, planning and training, led the first successful British unsupported expedition from Canada to the Geographic North Pole. Walking 672 nautical miles in temperatures as low as -65°C Alan has subsequently led 12 successful North Pole expeditions with top business leaders and chief executives, in order to help them explore and reflect on their own leadership capabilities. At the age of 32, Alan Chambers was awarded an MBE by HM The Queen in 2000 for ‘determination and leadership in constant adversity'. He is also a qualified diver, parachutist, paramedic and ski survival instructor. | |
Anthony Connolly Strategic Risk Consultant, Risk Engineering UK Zurich Anthony has over 24 years of Financial Services experience gained at TSB, Lloyds & Barclays Corporate Banking. The majority of this time has been spent working in Risk & Credit Functions in either key first or second Line of Defence roles. Anthony has recently joined Zurich and is looking forward to working across both the Private & Public sector and putting his risk management skills to the test across a wide and varied client portfolio. | |
Angela Cox Principal of Borders College Borders College Angela was previously the Deputy Principal at The City of Liverpool College and has over 20 years’ experience in the Further Education sector. She was born and educated in Scotland and hails from Cumbernauld. Her association with FE began as a student at Central College of Commerce in Glasgow, before progressing to study for a BA(Hons) and an MBA. After working in the USA and UK in the Services Industry Sector she began as a part time lecturer in Reading before progressing into several middle and senior leader positions at Bournemouth & Poole College | |
Lorna MacDonald SFC Director Scottish Funding Council | |
Simon Mander Principal Consultant WPM Education Simon Mander heads up the WPM Consultancy team, with well over a
decade of experience of online payments in the sector. He also works closely
with the PCI DSS SIG, utilising his technical background and security
expertise, to deliver PCI DSS Foundation and Practitioner courses for SIG
members. WPM’s Consultancy team help institutions develop a better understanding of their Payment Acceptance landscape, using tools such as the WPM Payment Acceptance Toolkit and Scorecard to help then benchmark and improve their processes | |
David McKechnie Customer Development Manager TechnologyOne As a
Customer Development Manager David has spent over 12 years developing and
managing business relationships across a number of vertical markets including
Local Government and Education. David is responsible for looking after all new
business within the UK North region for TechnologyOne David is responsible for Scotland, North England, Northern Ireland and Ireland | |
David Stewart Senior Pre-sales Consultant TechnologyOne As a Senior Pre-sales Consultant, Dave has spent over 27 years working with customers to improve business processes, reduce costs and deliver new capability in financials and asset management across a range of industries including Local Government and Education. | |
Shona Struthers Chief Executive Colleges Scotland | |
Matthew Swann Senior Manager, Public Sector Audit, Scott-Moncrieff Matt has nearly ten years of public sector internal and external audit experience, with a particular focus on education. Matt works across both the further and higher education sectors providing support in areas including Financial Management, Priority Based Budgeting and Staff Resource Management | |
Stuart Thompson Vice Principal Finance & HR City of Glasgow College | |
Moira Walker Head of Rating Ryden Moira Joined Ryden in June 2013, bringing a wealth of experience gained over 18 years in both the public and private sectors. She has specialised in Business Rates having spent seven years in the public sector as a valuer within the Renfrewshire Assessors Office and as a Business Rates Specialist in the private sector where she has achieved substantial savings for clients. She is an Honours member of the Institute of Revenue, Rating and Valuation and is also a member of the Rating Surveyors Association. In additon to Rating, Moira is a Registerd Valuer and has dealt with commercial property valuations for secure lending purposes and in regard to public sector asset valuations. She has also provided advice in respect of rent reviews and lease renewals over large commercial portfolios. | |
Elizabeth Young Senior Manager, Public Sector Audit Scott-Moncrieff Elizabeth specialises in providing internal audit services within the public sector. Her current portfolio is focused on education, with clients in the further and higher education sectors as well as central government. Elizabeth is a member of ICAS’s Audit and Assurance Panel as well as the Institute of Internal Audit's Scottish Regional Committee and in 2016 was recognised as one of ICAS's Top 35 CA's Under 35. | |