Jim has Chairman and Chief Executive experience with both large and small companies. He has significant experience in growing shareholder value in businesses and, through his involvement as Non-Executive Chairman in a number of ventures has led merger and acquisition activities for many years. He has been involved in many engineering sectors and also life sciences. Jim led the sale of First Engineering Ltd. to Porterhouse and EJ Stiell Group Ltd. to McAlpine. He is a Non Executive Director with VCT 2 and 3 of Aberdeen Asset Management and sits on the Board of the Co Investment fund of Scottish enterprise.