Dr Tom Walker –
Chairman
BSc (Hons) Ist class Dunhelm 1961; PhD
University of Aberdeen (for studies at the Rowett Institute) 1966.
Various residential programmes at Insead and Harvard Business Schools,
including finance, venturing, innovation and globalisation.
Worked for BP for 25 years in a variety
of staff and executive line roles. BP career began in research and
then developed through to a senior commercial role. First in BP’s
large agribusiness conglomerate and then in a senior corporate planning
position covering the full range of BP’s business activities.
Worked in the UK, Holland, France, Belgium, Asia and the USA.
Worked for 5 years as General Manager,
Group Strategic Development of Standard Chartered Bank. The Bank
had a network of operations over 50 countries in Asia, Middle East,
Africa, Australia and the USA. From being an important international
player in the postwar period, both the performance and position
of the Bank had deteriorated to the point where its survival was
in serious doubt by the early 1990s. Got the Board to focus on the
core businesses in the Asia-Pacific region; performance improved
the market value of the Bank and increased twenty-fold over 5 years.
Member of the Governing Body of the Rowett
Research Institute since 1994. Member of the Chairman’s Committee,
the Audit Subcommittee and was “sponsoring Governor”
for the Health and Safety until 2005. Chairman of the Board of Rowett
Research Services, a wholly owned subsidiary company responsible
to the Governors for the transfer of technology from the Institute
to the private sector.
Dr Alan Rowe – Chief Executive Officer
Alan Rowe trained as a chemist. After
a spell in research with multinational companies such as AKZO, EXXON
and BP he joined a high technology start company. Polymer Laboratories
Limited (PL). During his time at PL he was responsible for new product
development and contributed to the company’s success and rapid
growth.
Alan moved to the University of Warwick
in 1987 to take up a post in technology transfer. During his 12
years there Alan undertook a number of roles at a senior level associated
with technology transfer, industrial development, innovation and
European and regional development. These included relationships
with local science parks, enterprise agencies and other economic
drivers and was a leading player in a number of regional initiatives
including bringing together the 10 universities in the English Midlands
under the Mercia Initiative.
In 1999 Alan joined Rowett Research Services
Limited, the knowledge transfer subsidiary of the Rowett Institute,
as CEO. Since that time he has taken the company through a transition
from being primarily a service provider to a technology developer.
He continues to have a strong interest in Innovation and the application
of the impact of the research community on economic growth. He has
fostered four spin out companies from
the Rowett in the last five years, one of these, Provexis plc,
going successfully to the AIM market in 2005.
Alan is a Director of Scotland Food and
Drink Limited, the cross sectoral public private company created
in 2007 to drive economic development of the food sector in Scotland.
He also sits on the management board of Genomia Seed Fund.
The Company Board
Professor Peter Morgan
Professor Morgan is the current Director
and Chief Executive of the Rowett Institute, being responsible for
its scientific strategy and organisation. He took up post in 1999
and since then has overseen the transformation of the Institute
from its historical research interests related to animal nutrition
towards its current focus on human nutrition and health. This has
involved the development of a multidisciplinary research approach
spanning state of the art molecular techniques (genomics and proteomics)
through to studies on human volunteers.
Professor Morgan is a member of several
key committees related to scientific strategy and implementation.
These include the Scottish Science Advisory Committee, the Scottish
Food and Health Council, the Scientific Committee of the German
Human Nutrition Institute, Potsdam, Germany and the Governing Council
of NuGO (an EU funded Network of Excellence in Nutrigenomics). He
is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh as well as the Institute
of Biology. He continues to maintain an active research group at
the Institute (Molecular Endocrinology) focused upon the physiological
regulation of body weight and the influence of biological timing
systems on physiological regulation.
Brian Pack OBE
After studying at the West and the North
of Scotland Colleges of Agriculture, Brian joined the staff of the
Economics Division of the North College in 1967. During a year’s
sabbatical Brian gained an MSc in Agricultural Management from the
University of Reading.
During his time with the College, he
was heavily involved in teaching and consulting in farm business
management. He had a particular interest in financial management
and developed a ground-breaking software programme which is still
in use today - this package won a national award for innovation
in farm business management.
He left the college in 1982, having attained the position of Senior
Agricultural Economist, to join Mackies as Financial & Farms
Director, becoming Managing Director in 1984. Mackies is an extensive
farming and milk products business.
Brian was appointed Chief Executive of ANM Group Ltd in November
1990. The Group now has sales of over £150m and a staff of
over 500. It consists of Aberdeen & Northern Marts, Scotch Premier
Meat Ltd, Highland Country Foods Ltd, Yorkshire Premier Meat Ltd,
Aberdeen & Northern (Estates) Ltd, Highland Cuisine Ltd, H &
I Livestock Ltd, EASIGOE Ltd which deals in surplus gas and oil
equipment and Thainstone Specialist Auctions.
Brian is also Managing Director of Farmdata
Ltd, an agricultural software house and is a director of Financial
Control Services Ltd, (a farmers’ co-op which offers a budgeting
and financial control service to farmers) and the Scottish SPCA
Ltd. Brian is a member of Grampian Food Forum, and a Governor of
the Rowett Research Institute.
Brian is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Society.
In the Queen’s Birthday Honours
in 1999, Brian was awarded an OBE for services to agriculture, food
and marketing.
Brian is married to Pamela and they have
two sons.
Professor Michael
J Gibney
Michael J Gibney graduated in agricultural
chemistry from University College Dublin in 1971 and worked as a
teaching fellow at the Veterinary School at the University of Sydney
where he was awarded a PhD in 1976. From there he moved to the University
of Southampton Medical School where he took up the post of Lecturer
in Human Nutrition. In 1984 he returned to Dublin and took up a
post as head of the Nutrition Unit, Department of Clinical Medicine,
where he is currently professor of nutrition. Since 2001, he is
also a visiting Professor in Food Regulatory Affairs at the University
of Ulster. His research interests, covered in over 150 original
peer-reviewed papers, lie in: the metabolism of lipids, food consumption
studies, probabilistic modelling of exposure to food borne hazards
and public health nutrition. He presently operates several major
research programmes including a major EU funded integrated project
(www.lipgene.tcd.ie). From 1985 to 1997 he served on the EU Scientific
Committee for Food and chaired its working groups on Nutrition and
on Exposure Assessment. From 1997 to 2000 he served on the EU Scientific
Steering Committee and was chair of its working group on BSE. He
was President of the Nutrition Society from 1995 to 1998 and is
presently editor-in-chief of its series of four human nutrition
textbooks.
Mr Alistair J Gove
Educated in Aberdeen at Ruthrieston and
Aberdeen Grammar School. Entered Local Government in 1963 (City
Assessor's Department as trainee Valuation Surveyor) and studied
through College of Estate Management in Reading. Spent 3 years with
Surrey County Council in the County Valuer's Department between
1966 and 1969 and qualified as Chartered Surveyor in 1968. Returned
to Aberdeen in 1970 and spent 3 years in the Aberdeenshire County
Assessor's Department. Left Local Government in 1973 to F G Burnett,
Chartered Surveyors and Property Consultants and in 1978 became
an equity partner in the firm. In 1981 elected Fellow of the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors.
Extensive experience in property matters specialising in valuation,
rating appeals, rent reviews and arbitration work. On the Royal
Institution of Chartered Surveyors list of approved Arbiters/Independent
Experts in Scotland. In 1993/4 completed Postgraduate Certificate
in Arbitration at the Robert Gordon University in 1994 was elected
an Associate of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators. In 1995
was elected a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators.
In 1997 became a senior partner of F G Burnett and in 2000 became
Managing Director when the practice was incorporated. Between 2002
and 2005 he was Chairman of F G Burnett Ltd. He retired from F G
Burnett in September 2005 and is presently retained as a consultant
to the company.
Professor R B (Jim)
Leslie
Jim Leslie originally trained as a chemist/biophysicist
and spent more than thirty years working in various roles (basic
research, product development and strategic analysis) for Unilever.
His final positions were as Programme Manager for the outsourced
collaborative research activities relevant to food, contracted by
Unilever with universities and research institutes worldwide, and
as the principal Unilever contact with the various EU Food R&D
Framework programmes. During his career he has held Visiting Professorships
at the Universities of Durham and Nottingham and at Rutgers in the
USA.
Since his retirement from Unilever, Jim
Leslie has undertaken a range of assignments for the UK Government
and the European Commission, e.g. as one of the UK Government-appointed
members of the External Advisory Group (EAG) for the Food, Nutrition
and Health Programme of Framework V. He originally joined the Board
of the Rowett Institute as the nominee of the CBI in 1998.
Professor Tom T
MacDonald
Tom MacDonald is Professor of Immunology
and Dean for Research at Barts and the London School of Medicine
and Dentistry, Queen Mary, University of London. Professor MacDonald
has a long-term interest in the intestinal immune system in health
and disease, with particular interest in chronic inflammatory bowel
disease, food hypersensitivity, the relationship between the normal
flora and gut immunity, and protective immunity to bacterial pathogens.
From Balloch on Loch Lomondside, he gained his PhD in Immunology
at Glasgow University and then spent 10 years in the USA, mostly
at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia. He returned to Bart's
Medical College in London in the mid 80's as a Wellcome Trust Senior
Lecturer, and was made a Professor of the University of London in
1991. In 2000 he moved to the University of Southampton School of
Medicine as Professor of Immunology and Head of the Division of
Infection, Inflammation and Repair, but was tempted back to London
in 2005. He has published over 300 papers and reviews, 5 books,
is a Fellow of the Royal College of Pathologists and the Academy
of Medical Science, and is a regular speaker at international gastroenterology
and immunology meetings.
Mr David R Whiteford
OBE
David Whiteford is the Governing Board
member with responsibility for representing the Farming Industry.
He lives at Castlecraig in Easter Ross where, along with his brothers
he manages a farming business that extends to some 1100 hectares.
On the arable front crops grown include Winter Wheat, Winter and
Spring Barley, and Winter Oilseed Rape. Livestock enterprises include
some 350 suckler cows, 1800 Ewes and a 300 Indoor Sow unit.
In addition David is the Business Development
Director of Scottish Food Quality Certification. SFQC is an independent
Certification Body specialising in the Inspection and Certification
of primary food production and processing. SFQC was established
in March 1995 to meet the Food and Farming industries’ demand
for the provision of credible, independent product certification
services within the Scottish Food, Farm and Fisheries sectors. Since
its establishment SFQC has grown substantially and now inspects
and certifies over 16,000 farms and food companies throughout Scotland.
David has previously Chaired the Scottish NFU’s Pigs Committee
and the Scottish Pig Industry Initiative in addition to serving
on the Boards of Grampian Pig Producers, Moray Firth Livestock,
Quality Meat Scotland and Checkmate International PLC.
David was awarded the OBE in 2000 for services to Agriculture.
Mr. David Blair –
Company Secretary
Mr Blair is responsible for the Administration
Division of the Rowett Research Institute which includes the financial,
personnel, legal, farm, security and technical services. As a solicitor
with a practising certificate, he is also the Company Secretary
for the Rowett Institute. He negotiates contracts for exploitation
of intellectual property and rewards to inventors and he leads the
Institute's estates policy for land management and currently the
negotiations for sale of 38 acres at Hopecroft, Forrit Brae for
housing.
He is a director of Aberdeen Metropolitan
Area Network Ltd (AbMAN) and represents the Institute and the SABRIs
on various committees of BBSRC and SEERAD. |
