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FWB Park Brown recently hosted a session with the University of Edinburgh Business School on how social media specifically impacts Non Executive Directors – in relation to its relevance to the business boards they sit on and their corporate responsibilities, as well as its relevance to them as individuals running their own portfolios. Keeping up with […]

FWB Park Brown are proud to have assisted international premium spirits company Edrington with the appointment of a new Non-Executive Director, Crawford Gillies, to their board. Willie Finlayson of FWB Park Brown commented ‘we were delighted to advise The Edrington Group on this key appointment and wish both parties every success with it’. For the […]

Celtic PLC is pleased to announce that it has appointed Sharon Brown as a non-executive director of the Company on 09 December 2016, with immediate effect. Sharon is currently a non-executive director of McColl’s Retail Group plc, Fidelity Special Values Plc and F&C Capital & Income Investment Trust plc. Between 1998 and 2013, Sharon was […]

The Executive Women’s Leadership Development Programme concluded on Wednesday with a celebratory dinner where the Guest Speaker was Barbara Cassani who flew specially straight from the US as she was so impressed with the programme. Barbara set up BA’s budget airline Go Fly which she then sold to Easyjet, was the first director of the […]

At an awards ceremony in London last night Edinburgh was awarded the accolade of being the UK’s most entrepreneurial city. Scott attended the awards in his role as President of The Edinburgh Chamber of Commerce. Commenting on the successful evening Scott said “it was a great night topped off by the award for the city”.

The Executive Women’s Leadership Development Programme met for their ninth session on Wednesday 2nd of November. The session was focussed on Teams and Decision Making and the group welcomed two very distinguished guest speakers in Benny Higgins, CEO of Tesco Bank and Birna Einarsdottir, CEO of Islandsbanki in Iceland. Benny spoke first and gave an […]

  Ally Scott has joined Ernst & Young as a Partner and Head of Transaction Advisory Services practice in Scotland. He was previously MD of Barclays for Scotland & Northern Ireland. Tesco Bank has appointed Declan Hourican as CFO and he joins from RBS. Scottish Water has appointed Brian Lironi as Director of External Communication […]

Last week FWB Park Brown hosted a private manufacturing-themed dinner at the Life Sciences Association office in Edinburgh. We had 20 industry leaders around the table for an enjoyable and informative discussion about the challenges and opportunities in the sector. Our guest speaker for the evening was Dave Tudor, VP Primary Supply Chain at GSK. […]

The launch of the new centre was marked with an Inaugural Conference on Friday 28th October 2016 chaired by Susan Deacon, Assistant Principal External Relations, The University of Edinburgh and Chair of IOD Scotland. The contributors were: Christian Gronroos, Emeritus Professor of Service and Relationship Marketing, Hanken School of Economics Scott Black, Managing Director, FWB […]