Director of the Year Award Winners
Two of Scotland’s top business figures were honoured at the IoD Scotland Director of the Year Awards at a prestigious ceremony held at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Glasgow on Thursday March 21, 2013.
The judges selected Roy MacGregor OBE, Chairman of Inverness based Global Energy Group to take home the Award for IoD Scotland Director of the Year in the businesses over £30m turnover category for his outstanding vision which has been crucial to the success and strong growth of the company since its launch in 2005.
IoD Scotland Executive Director David Watt said: “Roy’s leadership of Global Energy Group is extremely impressive, driving turnover to £200m and creating a worldwide workforce of 3,500 in just eight years. A series of acquisitions have been key to its success, including the Nigg shipyard which has benefited not only the company but the Highlands economy by bringing oil rig repair work back to the Cromarty Firth.”
Dick Philbrick, Managing Director of East Kilbride firm Clansman Dynamics Ltd was named as both the IoD Scotland Director of the Year for 2012 in the businesses up to £30m turnover category and the Glasgow and West of Scotland Regional Director of the Year.
The judges selected Dick because despite the global engineering sector experiencing a downturn, Dick steered the robotic foundry equipment manufacturing firm through a sustained period of growth.
IoD Scotland Executive Director David Watt said: “In what is a great home grown success story, Dick’s leadership at Clansman Dynamics is very impressive, increasing turnover by a spectacular 65%, growing profitability and increasing its international presence to 41 overseas markets, whilst creating a satisfied workforce.”
Due to an incredibly high standard of entries this year, the judges made the decision to split the award for the Director of the Year into two, based on turnover, for the first time ever to acknowledge and reward directors from across the wide spectrum of business activity in Scotland, while reflecting the differences in leading organisations of varying sizes.
The full list of winners is as follows:
IoD Scotland Director of the Year – Businesses over £30m Turnover
Roy MacGregor OBE, Chairman, Global Energy Group
IoD Scotland Director of the Year – Businesses up to £30m Turnover
Dick Philbrick, Chairman, Clansman Dynamics Ltd
Highly Commended: Fred Bowden, Woollard and Henry Ltd
Chairman’s Award
Ian Marchant, Chief Executive, Scottish and Southern Energy (SSE)
Lester Cameron, former Branch Secretary, IoD Scotland Aberdeen & Grampian
Non-Executive Director Award
Kevin Lyon
Female Director
Donna Malone, Global HR Director, Howden Group Limited
Highly Commended: Theresa Shearer, ENABLE Scotland
Public Sector Director
Professor Seona Reid CBE, Director, The Glasgow School of Art
Third Sector Director
Simon Milne MBE, Chief Executive, Scottish Wildlife Trust
Highly Commended: Jo Armstrong, ENABLE Scotland
Emerging Director
Vivien Buchan, Finance and Operations Director, Insights Learning and Development
Director Award for Workplace Health, Safety & Wellbeing
Dennis Overton, Managing Director, Aquascot Ltd
Highly Commended: Group Captain Ian Gale MBE, RAF Lossiemouth
Director Award for Sustainability Leadership
Paul Easto, Chief Executive, Wilderness Scotland
Highly Commended: Andrew Cort, FMC Technologies Ltd
Director Award for Flexible Working Policies
Andrew Cunningham & Andrea Horner, Directors, Barclays
Prince’s Trust Youth Business Scotland Director
Steven Sibbald, Director, Springboard Europe Ltd
Regional Director Categories
Aberdeen & Grampian Regional Director
Leo Koot, Managing Director, TAQA Bratani Limited
Edinburgh, Lothians and the Borders Regional Director
Brian Williamson, Managing Director, Jumpstart
Fife & Central Scotland Regional Director
John Lupton, Chief Executive, Scott & Fyfe Limited
Glasgow & West of Scotland Regional Director
Dick Philbrick, Chairman, Clansman Dynamics Ltd
Highly Commended: Alan McLeish, QTS Group
Highlands & Islands Regional Director
Caroline Campbell, Director, The Ironworks Venue
Tayside Regional Director
Tony Banks, Founder and Chairman, Balhousie Care Group
Young Enterprise Scotland Director
Emma Davidson, ICONIC
Becky Small, Innovation
Each of this year’s winners received a unique, specially commissioned trophy, designed and produced by Sarah Peterson of Caithness Glass, a framed certificate and a tartan gift produced and provided by Kinloch Anderson.
Photographs from this year’s awards ceremony will be available to view shortly.
