The Calyx Management Structure

Overall Structure
The Calyx proposals are being taken forward by Scotland's Garden Trust, a company with charitable status. The Trust are de facto owners of The Calyx and will act as a 'management board' giving direction and making policy decisions during the development phase and eventual ongoing operation of The Calyx.

Scotland's Garden Trust
The Trust is a company with charitable status which has a Board of Directors to provide direction and form the main policy making unit for The Calyx throughout its development and operation.
The current Board members have been identified in section 3.1 and constitute a grouping of individuals who bring a range of skills to the team and to the development of The Calyx in general. These individuals include horticultural experts, business operators, legal experts, and benefactors, alongside representation from SET. Thumbnail CVs of the trustees are given in the appendices.
As indicated, ownership of The Calyx will reside with the Trust. Below the Trust will be a Project Management Team during the construction / development phase and eventually a separate Trading Company will be established, responsible for the day-to-day operation (see below).

The Project Management Team
Over the envisaged development period of the Garden, a Project Management Team will effectively be 'employed' by the Trust to act on its behalf to facilitate the actual development phase.
This Project Management Team will deal with the daily requirements of the evolving project in its widest sense, translating Trust/Board policy into action. (The management of the construction/planting will be carried out by others - professionals employed to oversee delivery of the contract i.e. procurement, construction, engineering etc - see allocation of 'professional fees' in the capital development costing reports provided by Doig & Smith to the TRC study and reviewed with Hardies, property and construction consultants, in association with Gillespies, in January 2004).
A 'Project Team' has been appointed by the Trust. This team currently includes around 6 FTE staff. This full-time team will be supported by expertise provided by SEN's shared project management teams (i.e. those in the network with hands-on experience of delivering major projects in Scotland).
There will be 'costs' associated with the employment of this team. The existing Bell's Cherrybank Centre, now in the Trust's ownership, provides the office base for the project team.

Key players in the project development team who have already been appointed include:

Peter Fairlie - Chief Executive

Peter has held senior positions in the Scotch Whisky Industry over 20 years in General Management, Marketing, Sales, PR, Business Strategy and Development. He has since developed a range of companies in various sectors including; distilling, visitor centres, healthcare, pharmaceutical services, hotel and leisure, retail and trade exhibitions.

Following the successful £180m takeover of Macallan Distillers PLC by Highland Distillers PLC in 1996, he was head-hunted to lead the team to develop and position Macallan globally as a premium international brand, and in 3 years increased profitability by a factor of 2.5 to £11m, with the award of three Queens Awards for Export.

As a Director of Highland Distillers Brands including Famous Grouse, Black Bottle, Highland Park, Bunnahabhain, and Tamdhu, he also extensively developed the group's distillery visitor centres.
As Managing Director of Glenturret Distillery he covered all aspects of the whisky industry in various roles. In 1990 he undertook a complete reorganisation of the whole distillery following a period of intensive investment in visitor facilities, and marketed the distillery into the top ten of all Scottish visitor attractions with a record 230,000 visitors from a zero base. Facilities he introduced included a 220-cover Taste of Scotland restaurant, and a retail facility with an extensive range of branded items, resulting in the most visited and most profitable distillery in the country.

Peter was a non-executive Director of the Scottish Tourist Board 95-98 and the Scottish Sports Council 93-96. He co-founded ASVA in 1988 - the Association of Scottish Visitor Attractions and was a member of the Scottish Tourist Board Group who devised the Autumn Gold Campaign.

Nicol M Dawson Dip. Hort. Edin., MLA.

'Nick' is a multi-talented individual with extensive experience in management, landscape architecture and horticulture.
His youthful appearance belies 21 years experience covering both commercial and amenity sectors of horticulture, combined with landscape design and management roles in leisure and sport industries, and a large variety of urban and rural architectural and landscape design projects. As part of a design team Nick has worked on many multi-million pound projects, which include Euro Disneyland (Paris), various stadia developments (Manchester Utd. FC, SRU and WRU), plus 4 years experience in golf course design, development and management which included design and development work on prestigious 5 star Hotel and championship courses in Scotland, Eire and Portugal.

Nick has valuable experience and an understanding of the complexities and importance of multidisciplinary team-working on large scale projects. During the last 5years, he has applied his skills in various project management roles, in particular a recently completed European part-funded garden visitor attraction at Pitlochry.

A combination of horticulture, design and communication skills have seen increasing demands for Nick's time in both radio and television, having worked for both the BBC and Scottish Television. Nick is also an accomplished (award winning) Garden Designer and in recent years he has worked on many televised community environmental improvement projects.
He is Chairman of the Perthshire Gardens Marketing Initiative, and a member of various committees promoting environmental tourism.

Project Team Structure

The nature of the project means that the structure of the project team will evolve during the period of the garden's development with people being taken on board only as and when specific skill sets are required to complete certain task. At this stage, the management and overall project team structure are indicated below.

Scotland's Garden Trust, Board of Directors - Trustee CV's

The Articles of Association for Scotland's Garden Trust allows for any given number of Directors at one time. The existing Board will continually seek to find new members with specific skills, which will secure the development and long-term success of the project.
Current Trustees are:

Dr Andrew Cubie CBE FRSE WS - Chairman
Graduating from Edinburgh University, Andrew Cubie was apprenticed to Fyfe Ireland & Co WS, becoming a partner in 1971 and Chairman in 1987.

He is a director of Murray Johnstone VCT3 plc, Kinloch Anderson Ltd, Norfrost Holdings Ltd and Bactokil Ltd. Andrew is also Chairman of Quality Scotland Foundation, Scotland's Health at Work Scheme, RNLI Scotland, BESO Scotland, the Scottish Chamber Orchestra Trust, and the Steering Group Graduates for Growth. He is also Chairman of Napier University Court and the Scottish Credit and Qualification Framework. Nationally, he is Vice President of the RNLI and BESO, and the Deputy Chairman of the RNLI Fundraising Committee.

Stan Green, BSc Agri.,
Graduating from Aberdeen University with BSc. Agriculture, Stan Green was immediately employed in horticulture behind the scenes at "Beechgrove Garden". He went on to establish Growforth Limited, a company servicing garden centres throughout Scotland and the north of England, with over one million plants annually. Growforth is an award winning company, finalist in STV's "The Business Game", Finalist in Radio 4's (Radio Times) Enterprise awards and holder of the Provost's Award and a Business in the Community Award.

He sits on the Horticultural Trades Association's National Council (UK) and was the HTA Scottish Branch Chairman (1990 - 1995). He is a founder member of the Scottish horticultural initiative (Scottish Joint Committee) and Fife Ornamental Growers Group (FOG). Stan also sat on the Validation Panel for BSc & HND Horticulture.

James H. McColl MBE
Graduating from West of Scotland Agricultural College, Auchincruive, Ayr (now SAC), Jim McColl remained at the college as staff for 3 years before moving south to the University of Reading, then Shropshire LEA then to be Horticultural Advisor in MAFF Advisory Service in the East Midlands. Returning to Scotland in 1973 to become the Horticultural Adviser for Aberdeenshire, parts of Banffshire, Orkney and Shetland based at the North of Scotland College of Agriculture, Aberdeen.

In 1974 he also took charge of the Horticultural R&D Unit at Craibstone.
In 1978, he joined Stanley P. Morrison Ltd at their Glengarioch Distillery, Oldmeldrum to develop and manage their pioneering Waste Energy Project which was featured in the UK exhibit at the World Fair in Knoxville, USA in 1982 and at the Glasgow Garden Festival in 1988. Concurrently he was invited to co-present the BBC Scotland television programme 'The Beechgrove Garden' with George Barron. He is a regular contributor to a range of radio programmes on BBC Scotland, notably 'The Scottish Garden' and currently 'The Beechgrove Potting Shed', and to a number of regional newspapers and magazines.

He was past Convenor of the NFU of Scotland Glasshouse & Nursery Committee. First Chairman of the annual Scotgrow Exhibition & Conference. Member of the first Board of Trustees of the Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Council member of the National Trust for Scotland and member of their Gardens Advisory Committee.

Jim is a past committee member of the RHS Scotland's National Gardening Show and currently a Trustee and Vice Chairman of the Board of Gardening Scotland. He is also Vice Chairman of the Board of the Todhill Country Centre, a charity for the care of adults with learning difficulties situated in Ayrshire. Jim McColl was awarded a MBE (1996), Scottish Horticultural Medal (1982), Pearson Memorial Medal (Horticultural Trades Assoc.UK, 1995), Hon. Research Fellow, Scottish Crop Research Institute (1996) and the Gold Veitch Memorial Medal (Royal Horticultural Society2000) all for his services to horticulture.

Ian Reynolds B.Sc, MRTPI - Representing Scottish Enterprise Tayside on the Board
Graduating from Heriot Watt University in town and regional planning, Ian worked in the Scottish Office in Edinburgh, Planning in Dumfries and Galloway and Economic Development in Perthshire. He is now works for Scottish Enterprise Tayside, responsible for Tourism, Rural Projects and Businesses. He has also been a business partner in a designer knitwear company and a self-catering business. He is a director of Angus, Dundee, and Perthshire Tourist Board, and Perth and Kinross Countryside Trust. Ian represents the interests of Scottish Enterprise Tayside on the Board.

Bruce G Ballantine B.Sc., C. Eng.
Graduating from Edinburgh University with B.Sc. Electrical Engineering, Bruce Ballantine worked for Plessey U.K. Limited, Liverpool as an electronic telephone exchange designer. He then became Director then Managing Director of Repcon (UK) Limited, Britain's leading freight container repairer and subsidiary of the Ocean Group. Bruce was also Chairman, MacGregor Cory Haulage and Director of Sotmatra Paris, France's principal forklift truck service company.

In 1981 he moved as Managing Director to Cory Coal Limited, London, Britain's main private supplier of industrial coal, UK subsidiary of Eon. Whilst with Cory Coal he was also Director of OBA, Amsterdam Bulk Terminal, Cory Mann George (U.S.A. Coal Trader), John Kelly (Belfast coal & oil Distributor). Returning to Scotland, he became Managing Director of Belwood Trees Limited, one Britain's leading semi-mature tree growers until retirement in Perthshire in May 2003.

Hans H Rissmann
Born in Germany, Hans started his career in Germany, Switzerland and France in the hotel industry. Having worked in hotels such as the Hotel de Crillon in Paris, Hans then moved to the UK and Northern Ireland. From there he started his first association with Scotland, working in and managing various hotels, culminating with the Crest Hotel, Glasgow.

Hans left Scotland temporarily to become Director of Development for Crest Hotels and then, in 1989, was appointed General Manager of the Heathrow Penta, now the Renaissance. However, Scotland called again in 1993. Having won 'Best Conference Hotel of the Year' for the previous 3 years at the Penta, Hans felt the time was right to take up the challenge of launching a purpose built Centre. Edinburgh International Conference Centre Limited was just getting off the ground when Hans was taken on board as Chief Executive. It is now recognised as one of the leading international conference venues, with confirmed bookings up to 2010 and beyond.

With Hans at the helm, the Centre has generated in excess of £100 million of economic benefit for Edinburgh, since opening in 1995.In July 1999, Hans was awarded a much coveted Catey Award for Tourism, by the Caterer & Hotelkeeper magazine, in recognition of his outstanding contribution to tourism and raising the profile of British Hospitality to international visitors. The Company has also reached the finals of the European Quality Award and has achieved the highest score to date for the hospitality service standard "Hospitality Assured Meetings". Hans was awarded the Quality Scotland Leadership award in 2001 and is also Chairman of Investors in People Scotland, and a Director of Investors in People UK.

Ken Robertson
Ken Robertson is Director of Communications and External Affairs for Diageo Global Supply. Ken joined Guinness PLC in 1987 to support the company's external relationships in Scotland and has worked on major change programmes in the UK, Europe and North America for Guinness, United Distillers and since 1997, for Diageo. After completing his journalistic training with George Outram and Co. in the early 1970's, Ken worked with one of the UK's leading regional newspaper groups, F. Johnston and Co. before moving to the then Scottish Office where he was involved in overseas publicity, and later on Scottish media relations. After a move to local government where he was Press Officer for Central Regional Council, Ken joined Charles Barker, one of Europe's leading advertising and public relations agencies, supporting clients that included British Shipbuilders and Trafalgar House Group.

Cllr Jimmy Doig
Commenced a milk retail business in 1951 and diversified into Wholesale Milk, grocery and dairy products before selling his business in 1991. He now has financial interests in a nursing home.
Jimmy was elected to local government in 1966 as an Independent Councillor and is a founder member of Perth Tourist Association, and is also a member of the Perthshire Tourist Board. During his term as Councillor, Jimmy has been re-elected over many years from Regional Councillor to District Councillor and is a founder member of Perth Enterprise Company, and Perth Partnership.
Presently Jimmy is the Leader of the Joint Partnership Administration, and Convener of the Strategic policy and resources committee. Jimmy's other interests involve the Perth Cyrenians. He is a past Chairman of the Volunteer befriending Society, and presently is Director of the Perth & Kinross Recreational facilities. When he has time on his hands, he likes gardening, bonsai, and cycling.