6 . Glasgow Business February 2015
New Chamber Council Directors: Andrew Dobbie, Jim McIntyre, Isabella Miller and Shona Austin
Big welcome to Glasgow Chamber’s new directors
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» Four new directors in the retail, banking and design sectors join the board Shona Austin is Senior Manager, Bank
lasgow Chamber of Commerce welcomed four new directors to its Council of Directors at the Annual General Meeting in January.
Isabella Miller took up the role of Head of
Branch at John Lewis in Glasgow in August 2014. She is responsible for leading all aspects of
store operations including seting the vision and direction for the branch. Isabella joined the John Lewis Partnership in 1989 as a Central Graduate Trainee and has since held a variety of positions in several John Lewis branches throughout the UK. Isabella took up her first Head of Branch role in Liverpool before moving to John Lewis Peterborough, then John Lewis Newcastle.
Appointment
Glasgow Chamber chief joins city poverty panel
of Scotland, SME Banking, Glasgow, supporting clients with a turnover of £1 million-£25 million and those with borrowing needs of more than £50,000. Prior to this role, Shona had previously
held a number of other senior roles in Lloyds Banking Group, including Senior Manager, SME Banking Fife and Central Scotland and Executive Assistant to Lady Susan Rice, Managing Director, Lloyds Banking Group Scotland. Jim McIntyre is Regional Director,
Corporate and Commercial Banking, West of Scotland at Royal Bank of Scotland. Jim, who has held his current role since July
Stuart Patrick, Chief Executive of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce, has joined the city’s Poverty Leadership Panel.
The 25-member panel was set up in May 2013 and is co-chaired
2014, has been at RBS for more than 12 years in a range of roles and prior to that worked at Clydesdale Bank. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland and studied at INSEAD Business School in Paris. Andrew Dobbie is Founder and Managing
Director of MadeBrave, the graphic design, branding and photographic agency. Te company won the Best Performing Business (1-10 employees) category at Te Glasgow Business Awards 2013. A photographer and graphic designer,
Andrew has 12 years’ experience in the creative industries. He set up MadeBrave in 2012 with £1,000 of his own money. Te agency, based in Osborne Street, now employs 18 people.
by Councillor Gordon Matheson, the Leader of Glasgow City Council, and Ghazala Hakeem, a community activist from Govanhill. Mr Patrick said: “Poverty is an important issue for the city and
for the way the city economy functions and I am glad to have joined this body to play my part on behalf of Glasgow Chamber in helping tackle issues that affect us all.”
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