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Stirling Council – Cllr Scott Farmer, Leader

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Stirling Council – Carol Beattie, Chief Executive

Carol was appointed to the post of Chief Executive, Stirling Council on 7^th March 2019.

Carol has successfully steered the Council through development of a 10 year strategy and transformation plan in a succession of years of financial pressure. For the last 18 months the focus has been on supporting the effort in dealing with the pandemic, both locally for Stirling Communities and contributing to the national resilience work.

In addition, Carol has been instrumental in achieving a City Region Deal for Stirling and Clackmannanshire, where the emphasis is now on the delivery phase to support the economic and social wellbeing of the region and beyond. Achieving strong partnership working with key stakeholders, communities and businesses has been at the centre of the successes to date.

Carol has taken personal interest in expanding Stirling’s economy by growing its marketability as a destination for global investment.  She has brought a sharper focus on skills for the future and regeneration opportunities through place development, business sector growth and expanding the investment attraction and inclusive growth activity by refreshing the Economic Strategy and being a visible supporter to the wider business community in Stirling.

Having worked within an international context in both the private and public sector, Carol has developed specialist knowledge in developing international trade and foreign direct investment. She has a particular interest in growing trade skills development and the global reach of Scottish businesses, which was acknowledged when she became an Honorary Fellow of the Institute of Export.

Carol joined Stirling Council in 2014 as Senior Manager for Economic Development, and was appointed Director of Children, Communities and Enterprise in May 2017 before later being appointed Chief Executive.

Stirling Council – Brian Roberts, Chief Operating Officer, Infrastructure & Environment

As Chief Operating Officer, Brian leads on Infrastructure, Environment & Place and City Region Deal activities.
Focusing on improving Stirling’s public realm, its connectivity and enabling sustainable development, his current role has a wide portfolio with responsibilities including, Planning; Building Standards; Sustainability, Transport Planning, Asset Management; Capital Projects; Waste; Roads; Land; Fleet and Facilities Management (Catering, Cleaning & Caretaking) Services. Delivering major projects and investments for the City Region Deal that will generate inclusive economic growth, community wellbeing and sustainable outcomes across the Stirling & Clackmannanshire region.
He has a background in Civil Engineering and has 28 years of experience within Local Government, across a range of successful roles, projects and programmes, with specific career experience in engineering, transport and asset management.

Robertson Property – Katherine Mackintosh, Managing Director Regeneration

Katherine has over 30 years of experience in the property industry in both the public and private sector. She was responsible for strategic asset management of over 4,000 assets while at Highland Council. Since joining Robertson she has held a number of property-related roles delivering commercial property development. As Director of Regeneration at Robertson Katherine has focused on delivering development in partnership with the public sector, delivering the masterplan for Pennywell Town Centre in Edinburgh and the masterplan for 400 homes at Raploch in Stirling as part of the latest phase of regeneration.

On behalf of Cardiff Council, Katherine is currently leading delivery of the Atlantic Wharf, Butetown, Cardiff Masterplan which will see the delivery of a mixed use development, over the next 10 years to create new vibrant visitor destination, on a 30 acre site linking the City to Cardiff Bay, anchored by a new indoor arena.

Katherine is a Director of Elgin Business Improvement District supporting the transformation of town centres.

She believes that all development should leave a positive legacy for the wider community and that the industry and communities need to work together to deliver this.

M&G plc – David Macmillan, Chief Customer & Innovation Officer

With over 30 years’ experience in the insurance, wealth management, data analytics and retail banking segments of the financial services market, David has built up a long trackrecord of innovative and transformational leadership.

David joined M&G plc from within, ahead of its floatation in 2019, having previously been Managing Director, Prudential UK and Europe before the merger with M&G Investments that heralded the creation of the new company. Prior to that David was Chief Marketing Officer of Transamerica (USA) until 2017 and before
that AEGON (UK) until 2015.

On graduation from the University of Edinburgh, David joined Standard Life and spent 17 years at the company; including 7 years as Sales & Marketing Director of a start-up Bank, and 2 years as UK Retail Director for the newly floated Standard Life plc. Between leaving Standard Life in 2007 and joining AEGON in 2011, David led two different risk and analytics businesses as CEO.