Chairman of the Trustees
David Spence was President of ICAS in 1998/1999. He chaired the ICAS Research Committee between 2005 and 2010. He was a partner in Grant Thornton UK LLP until 2006. His broad regulatory, investigations, litigation and advisory experience is backed by 30 years' involvement in corporate finance, audit and turnaround work. He has held several high profile external appointments and has also acted as a DTI Inspector on two occasions. He is now a member of the Council of Royal Holloway University of London and Honorary Treasurer of Debra UK.
Trustees
John Baillie was appointed Chair of the Accounts Commission in November 2007, having been a member since 2003. He is also a non-executive member of the Audit Scotland Board, and has just demitted office after 9 years as a member of the Reporting Panel of the Competition Commission. He has chaired various committees and groups for the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland. In 1983 John was appointed Professor of Accounting at the University of Glasgow. Since 1996 he has been a visiting Professor. He was a partner of KPMG in Scotland then London from 1978-92. He currently advises on share valuations and litigations to court.
Gerry Devlin is currently the Executive Director of both the Kinharvie Institute of Facilitation and the Marist Brothers (Educational Trust). His business experience is complemented by further studies and training in leadership, psychological tools for individual/organisational development, counselling and supervision. He has worked with a wide range of organisations in the public, voluntary and commercial sectors and is particularly committed to the support and development of not for profit organisations.
Andrew Dougal has been working with a portfolio of non executive directorships since 2002. Currently he is a director of Taylor Wimpey Plc, Premier Farnell Plc and Creston Plc. He has chaired the Audit or Remuneration Committees of these companies. Previously Chief Executive of Hanson Plc, the FTSE 100 international building materials company. Prior to joining Hanson, he spent 9 years as a senior accountant with the former industrial group of Scottish & Universal Investments Ltd. He qualified as a CA in 1975 whilst with Ernst & Young in Glasgow. He is Convener of the ICAS Business Policy Committee and a member of the Technical Policy Board.
Gordon Jack retired as an audit partner in PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2005, having lead the Glasgow audit practice for a number of years. He has served on numerous ICAS committees, was a member of Council of ICAS from 2001 to 2008 and Chaired the Executive Board of ICAS from 2004 to 2007. He is currently Chairman of the board of governors at The Glasgow Academy, and a member of the governing boards at the Scottish Council for Independent Schools and The Association of Governing Bodies of Independent Schools.
Alison McGilvray has worked in many different settings - mainly in the voluntary sector, libraries and universities. She was Director of a Scotland-wide charity for eight years, was a non-executive director of an NHS Trust and has undertaken a number of reviews on governance in voluntary organisations. Her voluntary activities have included participation, as a lay reviewer, in the work of NHS Quality Improvement Scotland and membership of her local community council.
Neil Menzies is a member of Network Rail, sits on the Professional Conduct Committee of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators, and is a director/trustee of several Scottish charities. He has held three public appointments: as a board member of the Scottish Water and Sewerage Customers Council, the Scottish Ambulance Service and energywatch.
Ian Stubbs was a partner in Maclay Murray Spens, a leading firm of Scottish Solicitors, where he specialised (amongst other matters) in Trusts and personal financial advice. Ian was also on the Councils of both the Law Society of Scotland and The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland (ICAS). Since retiral Ian has continued as a trustee of several Charitable Trusts and is also a non executive director of several companies. He has retained his links with academia being presently a tutor at Strathclyde University and for STEP, and is an external examiner at both Edinburgh and Glasgow Universities. He also serves on the Investigation and Professional Conduct Committee of ICAS and is Finance Convenor of Mearns Kirk.
Professor Pauline Weetman has been a professor of accounting at the University of Edinburgh since 2008. She has served as a Member of Council of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland and has acted as their Director of Research. She has 35 years’ experience in higher education teaching, researching and publishing on matters of accounting, and has worked closely with the accountancy profession throughout that time. She has chaired the Board of Accreditation of Accountancy Educational Courses and is a lay member of the Scottish Solicitors’ Discipline Tribunal, a non-executive member of the Board of the Students’ Awards Agency for Scotland, and a member of the Advisory Council for the Scottish Qualifications Authority. She was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2003 and received the Distinguished Academic Award of the British Accounting Association in 2005.