Lisa is Head of External Affairs for The RadioCentre, the venture which promotes and represents commercial radio in the UK, responsible for fostering relationships with government, parliament, regulators and other bodies concerned with radio. She was previously Managing Director of one of the UK’s largest groups of local radio stations and was an award-winning radio presenter and producer at Radio Forth and Classic FM.

A graduate of the University of York’s music department, she previously served on the boards of the Salisbury International Arts Festival and the Canterbury Festival. She is a governor of Gordonstoun Schools and lives near Elgin with her husband and children.

Paul is Chairman of the Betts Group, an international packaging company, and a director of Greenbottle, an innovative environmental packaging company. He was previously an Executive Director of the Boots Group, responsible for Group operations. He has many years’ experience of business – mergers, acquisitions and operations – including an international career with Procter & Gamble prior to Boots. He is an active member of the governing body of Business in the Environment. Paul is an enthusiastic amateur cellist – one-time leader of the Oxford University Orchestra Cello section – and is passionate about opera. He is married with two daughters and lives in Nottinghamshire.

Shields Henderson is a Chartered Accountant who has played many roles in his business life, including partner in a firm of professional accountants, managing director and finance director of manufacturing and media companies, raising finance for new ventures and refinancing existing businesses. Nowadays he acts as non-executive director of a number of companies in industries ranging through newspapers, subsea engineering for the oil industry, consultant engineering and office equipment sales to residential letting and private ambulance provision. He is treasurer of East Neuk Festival and a member of the Business Committee of the University of Edinburgh.

He recently gained an MA at Edinburgh University and is learning to play the piano.His other interests are golf, music, poetry and reading. He is married with four children. He lives in Edinburgh.
 

Colin is Vice-President, GCU Foundation and Director of Development, Glasgow Caledonian University. He has over twenty years’ experience in leading higher education and cultural development and marketing. Prior to joining GCU, he was Chief Executive of leading international philanthropic consulting firm Grenzebach Glier + Associates in Europe. In addition to his responsibilities for business development, he provided consulting advice and support to a range of institutions across the UK and Europe, including the universities of Birmingham, Bristol, Exeter, Greenwich, Liverpool John Moores, Leeds, Durham, City, Southampton and the Open University. He also advised MGIMO – the Moscow State Institute of International Relations, the British Red Cross, the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Scottish Opera, the Royal Zoological Society of Scotland, the Queen Mother’s Memorial Fund for Scotland and Club de Madrid.

Previously he served as Director, Marketing and Development, at the National Museums of Scotland; Director, External Affairs and Development at the University of Strathclyde (running a programme which won Gold in the 1993 UK Professional Fundraising Awards for the best educational campaign); Development Officer, St Hilda’s College, Oxford and Alumni Relations Officer at the University of Edinburgh.

Colin’s career began in The Netherlands, where for a time he taught English as a foreign language and was a Promotions Manager with Martinus Nijhoff Publishers.

He graduated in English and Business Studies with a BA and an MSc in Business Administration from the University of Edinburgh. He was born and brought up in Ayr.

He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Member of the Institute of Fundraising.

John is Chairman of the Friends of Scottish Opera and lives in Galloway. He was educated at Dulwich College, London and Worcester College, Oxford. After National Service in the Royal Tank Regiment he was a career civil servant, partly in Defence but also in HM Treasury, the Cabinet Office, the Northern Ireland Office and the Departments of Health and Social Security.

Since leaving the civil service he has been variously a management and public policy consultant, a non-executive member of the Hampstead Health Authority, Executive Director of the Carnegie Young People Initiative and a Trustee of the National AIDS Trust.

His recreations are listening to music, restoring antique furniture, cooking and gardening.