SUIP Ltd - Board of Directors
Robbie Taylor - SUIP Ltd Chairman
Robbie Taylor began his three-year tenure as chairman of Stirling University Innovation Park, in succession to Dr David Miller, in summer 2005.
Robbie is very much on home soil. Listed amongst his many past roles and positions are: visiting Professor to the business faculty at the University of Stirling, Chairman of Scottish Enterprise Forth Valley and Falkirk Enterprise Action Trust, Chairman of Investors in People Scotland, as well as being Chairman of the Larbert-based Taylor Group, which he developed from a family-owned iron founding business, servicing heavy engineering into a group of enterprising companies with over 300 employees servicing the new economy.
David Shaw - SUIP Ltd Company Secretary
John Anderson - CEO, Entrepreneurial Exchange
A well known specialist in entrepreneurship and new venture creation in Scotland, John brings considerable experience of emerging and high growth companies to his role as Chief Executive of The Entrepreneurial Exchange.
A founder member of The Entrepreneurial Exchange, John was a shareholding director of a young venture backed technology company engaged in the design, manufacture and distribution of laboratory equipment. He co-founded a company that provided pre-hospital emergency care and healthcare industry training and also a new media business. As an adviser in professional practice he worked with many of Scotland’s most exciting growth companies after returning to Scotland from Chicago in 1989.
An experienced non-executive director, he is a regular contributor to the media on issues facing emerging and high growth companies and was instrumental in setting up the Scottish Enterprise "Local Heroes" project, based in part on his own MBA thesis "Local Heroes - Scotland's Entrepreneurial Role Models".
John is an Honorary Senior Lecturer at the Hunter Centre for Entrepreneurship at the University of Strathclyde. He is a founding GlobalScot member and is a PSYBT Growth Fund panel member, director of Scottish Enterprise Tayside (audit committee chairman) and a director of Stirling University Innovation Park. John is Chairman of the Tayside and Fife regional committee of the Game Conservancy Trust.
Hugh Ross, OBE
Hugh has over 40 years experience of working in Government, mainly with industry and academia in the R&TD field. Following retirement from the Civil Service in May 2007, he set up his own consultancy firm, Hugh Ross Consultants, where he is currently involved in assisting small firms and universities with their commercialisation activities.
His earlier responsibilities in Government included placing and managing Government contracts with aerospace suppliers and contractors and promoting Government technical advisory services and EU and national R&TD Schemes for industry. He has also edited various technology journals, managed the Scottish element of the EU STRIDE Programme and been Chairman of the EU funded SME Initiative Operational Programme for Lowland Scotland Programme Management Committee.
Hugh also has extensive knowledge of sales and marketing, having spent the best part of a decade advising and assisting firms on all aspects of their export activities and acting as UK Sales Manager for a Government organisation that manufactured and sold a wide range of industrial and consumer products.
He became Head –Innovation Grants in the Scottish Executive Enterprise Transport & Lifelong Learning Department in January 1991 and continued in this position for some 16 years until his retirement. During this period he dealt with policy issues relating to industrial R&D support and technology transfer in Scotland and had overall responsibility for administering and promoting the SMART:SCOTLAND, SPUR and SPURPlus industrial R&D support schemes.
In addition to chairing the SMART:SCOTLAND Judging Panel, Hugh was a member of the Stakeholders Panel for Scottish Enterprise’s Proof of Concept Fund, Glasgow University’s Knowledge Transfer Strategy Group, and a former member of the Core Services Working Group for the Business Gateway Network, the Business Services Steering Group for the Glasgow Science Centre, and the Smart Northern Ireland Judging Panel.
He is a non-executive Director of Stirling University Innovation Park Ltd and Targeting Innovation Ltd and a former director of LINC Scotland – a nationwide business introduction service between private investors and businesses seeking growth and start-up capital.
He was awarded an OBE in 2002 and appointed an Honorary Fellow of Heriot Watt University in 2007.
Cllr. Scott Farmer - Deputy Leader Stirling Council
Executive-Portfolio Holder for Corporate Resources and Economy
Councillor Scott Farmer, Deputy Leader of Stirling Council, has been appointed to the Board of Stirling University Innovation Park Ltd.
Elected as a member of the Council in 2006 he holds the executive portfolio for Corporate Resources and Economy. A native of Edinburgh, he is a graduate of Stirling University with a degree in Politics, Philosophy, Business Law and Economics.
He replaces Councillor John Henry as the Council representative on the Board.
Dr John Rogers, Director of Research and Enterprise, University of Stirling
John is Director of Research and Enterprise at the University of Stirling. He has responsibility for an integrated portfolio covering strategy and policy, business development, pre- and post-award contract support, operations and systems, and graduate research. John has a strong interest in economic, social and community development and sits on the Boards of Stirling Enterprise Park (STEP) and Stirling University Innovation Park (SUIP). He is Managing Director of Stirling University Research and Enterprise (SURE Ltd), a Council Member of the Scottish Association of Marine Sciences (SAMS), and Chair of the Stirling Community Planning Economic Partnership.
Prior to joining Stirling in 2006, John worked at the University of Manchester, where he was Head of the Research Office and previously had responsibility for student recruitment and admissions, international recruitment and relations, public relations and research and graduate support. John was the manager of the national 2001 Research Assessment Exercise, working on behalf of the four UK higher education funding bodies, based at the Higher Education Funding Council for England in Bristol and London. His earlier career was spent at the University of Aberdeen, in strategic planning, faculty management and student administration roles. John has worked extensively on higher education management and development projects, and is a regular conference and workshop presenter in the UK and overseas on research policy and management, and wider higher education issues.
Karen Plouviez - Director of Estates and Campus Services, University of Stirling
Estates and Campus Services is the largest of the University’s departments and spans five divisions concerned with the management, use and development of the campus and property; and procurement and income generation from conferencing.
Karen’s responsibility extends to Property Management, Facilities, Commercial and Procurement Services, Residential Services and Safety, Health & Environment. Prior to joining the University in 2002, Karen was Head of Facilities with the British Library where she had responsibility for establishing the facilities management services for the flagship Euston Road building, for relocating over 1000 staff to this building, and for managing three other buildings in London and a 40 acre site in Yorkshire.
Originally a biochemist, Karen moved into the area of building management over 16 years ago and her professional background is in facilities management and safety. She is a member of the SAUDE (Scottish Association of University Directors of Estates) Executive and chairs the national association’s (AUDE) conference steering group.
Dr Trudi Nicolson
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Bob Jack
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