www.glasgowchamberofcommerce.com 11 AGENDA J H Forbes MacPherson CBE
By Duncan Tannahill President, Glasgow Chamber of Commerce (1997)
New Directors (above): Alan Horn; Professor Neal Juster; Susan Deighan; Jim McHarg; Waqi Ali; Mark Bowen and Stephen McGowan Board of Management (below): Brian Fulton; Professor Neal Juster, Gillian Docherty, Jim McHarg; Paul Little, Neil Amner and Isabella Miller
NEW PRESIDENT JIM McHARG
Glasgow Chamber AGM names new directors and Board members
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lasgow Chamber of Commerce has installed Jim McHarg as its new
President for a two-year term. Jim is a qualified engineer who began his working life as an apprentice at Weir Pumps Ltd, and from there held executive roles within a variety of large engineering companies. He now leads strategic HR initiatives across the Weir Group, including learning and organisational development. He succeeds Neil Amner,
Director at lawyer Anderson Strathern and a transport specialist. His deputy for the term is Paul Little, Principal and CEO at City of Glasgow College. At its AGM, Glasgow Chamber also made two new additions to its Board of Management, and elected six new directors to its ruling council. The new board members
are Professor Neal Juster, Senior Vice-Principal at the University of Glasgow, and Gillian Docherty of The Data Lab. The Board of Management now consists of Jim McHarg, Paul Little, Professor Neal Juster, Gillian Docherty, Neil Amner, John
Lewis Glasgow’s Head of Branch Isabella Miller, STV’s HR and Communications Director Suzanne Burns and Holdfast Entertainment Group Director Brian Fulton. Glasgow Chamber also
elected six new Directors, representing a cross-section of business interests from around Glasgow. Mark Bowen, the UK
Marketing Director of Scottish Power; Susan Deighan, Director of City Marketing and External Relations, Glasgow Life; Steve Dunlop, Chief Executive of Scottish Canals; Alan Horn, Director of Development at Glasgow School of Art; Professor Neal Juster, Vice-Principal for Strategy and Resources at the University of Glasgow and Stephen McGowan, EMEA Inside Sales Manager with Dell, have all been duly approved from Chamber Council membership. Waqi Ali will also serve as a nominated director for JCI Glasgow. The new President thanked
all of the retiring Directors for their contributions and gave special thanks to Chris Sheerin, who served for the full 15 years on the Chamber Council.
J H Forbes MacPherson CBE was President of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce from 1980 to 1981. He passed away peacefully on 16 December 2017 aged 91. Forbes’s connection with the Chamber started through Glasgow Junior Chamber of Commerce where he served as Chairman in 1965-66. He served as Glasgow’s second citizen in 1995-97 as Lord Dean of Guild of the Merchants House. He received a Glasgow Chamber of Commerce Award for Lifetime Achievement in 2004. A chartered accountant,
he was a partner in Wilson, Stirling & Co which ultimately merged with Touche Ross & Co. He was
J H Forbes MacPherson CBE
Chairman of TSB Scotland and a Director of the TSB Group. He also chaired the Scottish Mutual Assurance Society, the Glasgow Development Agency and the Glasgow University Vet School Small Animal Hospital fundraising appeal. He was recognised in the 1983 Queen’s Birthday Honours list when he was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. Forbes is survived by his
wife Margaret, son John and three grandchildren.
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