Finance & General Purposes Committee
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Richard Nash
ChairBiography
Richard qualified as a chartered certified accountant back in 1997, progressing onto fellowship status (FCCA). After starting his career within the finance department at Essex University, Richard progressed through a number of service-related industries including timber importers, freight forwarding and shipping agency, the cruise industry, and holiday travel agency. In 2013, Richard moved himself and his family to SW Scotland to commence his current role as Finance Director and Company Secretary for a global renewable energy consultancy and service operations business. In addition to finance, this also involves directing the business support functions for the company.
Richard’s voluntary interests have previously been successfully developing and growing a running club, progressing to chairing the county athletics association for several years. After moving to Scotland, these running interests translated to directing local running events including the 10km run in Gatehouse of Fleet and the Half Marathon race in Kirkcudbright.
Richard was appointed to the Board of Management in March 2021. He is Chair of the Finance and General Purpose Committee and is a member of the Remuneration Committee and Board Development Committee.
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Joanna Campbell
PrincipalBiography
A former graduate of Dundee University, Joanna commenced her Tertiary Education career, spanning over 22 years, as a Lecturer in Computing before progressing into a number of senior management roles.
Joanna joined Dumfries & Galloway College as Principal in June 2019 from City of Glasgow College, where she held the post of Vice Principal Student Experience. Here she gained a wealth of experience in leading transformational change, curriculum innovation, widening access, and performance excellence. Whilst at City of Glasgow, Joanna was the Chair of the Regional Learning and Teaching Group and the Glasgow Regional STEM Hub.
Prior to working at City of Glasgow College, Joanna was Assistant Principal for Learning and Teaching at Fife College where she was instrumental in establishing the first regional STEM Strategy and the award-winning ‘Girls into Energy’ programme with Shell UK.
Whilst Head of Department for Life Sciences, Maths and Computing at Forth Valley College, Joanna initiated the Engineers of the Future programme; an award-winning work based learning degree in partnership with Heriot Watt University and INEOS Manufacturing Ltd. She also led the college to become the first STEM Assured College in Scotland in 2012 an innovative skills-based Life Science degree with the University of Stirling.
Joanna also works as an Associate Assessor for Education Scotland, Chairs the Digital Skills Partnership Board and is a member of The Data Lab’s Skills Advisory Board.
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Caroline Stuart
Chair of the Board of ManagementBiography
A Technology and Business Studies graduate, Caroline initially worked in the City of London where she trained as an Investment Analyst. She returned to Scotland and managed three companies before moving into business consultancy and then joining Oracle as global industry advisor for 16 years. She is now an independent consultant.
She has been a Commissioner on both the Widening Access and Make Maths Count Commissions.
Caroline sits on various Boards and Committees including SFC and SPA. She joined Dumfries and Galloway College as Chair of the Board of Management in February 2022 and sits on the following Committees: Chair of Board Development Committee, Grievance Committee, Remuneration Committee, and Finance and General Purposes Committee.
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Claire McLean
Chair of HR Sub-CommitteeBiography
Claire studied photography in Edinburgh and then spent over 15 years as an HR practitioner in Scotland working for a variety of different businesses such as the Royal Bank of Scotland, AO.com and Specsavers before she founded Realise HR, an HR consultancy in 2015. Claire founded Realise HR to make a difference to people’s working lives and works with small to medium businesses and large organisations, both locally and across the UK. Realise HR has created 9 jobs for people in that time and has further ambitions to grow. Claire started her career with the Royal Bank of Scotland in Edinburgh then progressed to HR management of small teams within global businesses before moving into HR Director roles where she focused on strategic people planning and building competent teams to support company growth. To relax at the weekend Claire loves to read, travel and enjoys good food with her husband David and daughter Molly Rose.
Claire joined DGC Board of Management in April 2022 and sits on Remuneration Committee, Finance and General Purposes Committee, Chair of HR Sub Committee, Board Development Committee and Grievance Committee.
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David Burns
Support Trade Union MemberBiography
David Burns is currently employed in Digital Services at Dumfries and Galloway College and represents UNISON as the local shop steward.
He has over 40 years’ experience working in I.T. and prior to moving back to Dumfries in 2011, was employed by Glaxo Smith Kline, Shell and Hewlett Packard in Annan, London and Munich in a variety of I.T. infrastructure roles.
David joined DGC Board of Management in March 2024 and is a member of Finance and General Purposes Committee.
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George Clark
Non Executive MemberBiography
George Clark FIOR, FCIB, MSc (Risk), CIRSC, is an experienced Non-Executive Director and Charity Trustee and a previous Chair and Founding member of The Institute of Operational Risk, an international professional body. He has over 45 years experience in the financial services sector leading both business and risk functions at senior leadership level. As an independent consultant he has advised some of the industry’s leading financial services firms on change, risk and governance issues in Australia, New Zealand, Africa, the Netherlands and the UK. George is a passionate advocate for personal growth, learning and skills development.
George joined DGC Board of Management in September 2024 and is a member of Finance and General Purposes Committee and HR Sub Committee.
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Inga McVicar
Non Executive MemberBiography
Inga studied English Literature and History at The University of Edinburgh, and has worked across multiple sectors, including retail, publishing, marketing, hospitality, tourism and the third sector. Now in her second time of living in Galloway, Inga previously worked in the region as Project Manager of Destination Dumfries & Galloway and provided freelance services to various regional organisations, including Dumfries & Galloway Council, Dumfries Ice Bowl, Youth Beatz, the Creative Arts Business Network (CABN) and SUSTRANS.
Inga is passionate about Dumfries and Galloway, its people, its landscape and its potential. That includes working as a volunteer caseworker at SSAFA (the armed forces charity), working throughout Dumfries & Galloway’s community to support British Armed Forces veterans and their families, dependents and being a season ticket holder at Queen of the South.
Inga is now Operations Director at Springboard (The Springboard Charity/Springboard UK Ltd), mobilising Hospitality, Leisure and Tourism employability services throughout the UK; managing all of the charity’s activities in Northern Ireland, Scotland and North of England; and contract managing key partnerships with private sector, public sector and trust & foundations funders.
Inga joined DGC Board of Management in September 2024 and is a member of Finance and General Purposes Committee and Learning and Teaching Committee.
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Kate Glendye
Support Staff MemberBiography
Kate is a graduate from Strathclyde University with an Economics Degree. She joined DGC in February 2019 as Performance Manager and in 2022 became the Student Journey Manager. Kate is very passionate about improving the student journey and the experiences that our students have. Prior to working at DGC Kate was in the private sector working in various outsource call centres. Kate coaches at a local girl’s football team.
Kate is a member of Finance and General Purposes Committee and the HR Sub-Committee.
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