Chief Executive - Ian Manson

Appointed in April 2008, Ian Manson MA (Hons), M.Phil, has almost 30 years public-sector experience in planning, economic development, business growth, regeneration and public/private partnerships.

His career has taken him to Birmingham, North Lanarkshire and Glasgow, where he has been based since 1991.

Ian held a number of senior and key posts at Glasgow City Council, including Head of Corporate Policy and Senior Depute Director of Development & Regeneration, where he was in charge of physical planning, housing investment and community safety. Ian also enjoyed a two-year spell as Chief Advisor to the Leader of Glasgow City Council. 

Chair - Neil MacDonald

Neil has enjoyed a successful career in business and industry - on the shop floor, in management and at boardroom level - for almost 50 years. A design engineer by training, his career with a number of prestigious engineering and ship-building firms have taken him all over the world.

He is Chairman of Barr & Wray (Holdings) PLC and Martin Aerospace Ltd. , and has long been involved at the highest public-sector level. 

Neil is a past Chair of local training and enterprise trusts in Cumbernauld, East Kilbride and Hamilton. He is also a member of the Scottish Industrial Development  Scottish Enterprise Investment and Smart Scotland advisory Boards.

Vice-Chair - Chris Thompson

A South Lanarkshire councillor since 1995, Chris also has many years' experience as a senior executive with a business services company, and has worked on a number of regeneration projects over twenty years.

He has been Chair of Enterprise Resources at South Lanarkshire Council since 1999, with responsibility for a wide range of activities including regeneration, business development and funding, roads and transportation, planning and estates.

Chris sits on the Board of the West of Scotland Loan Fund, which worked with the private sector to increase the supply of financial resources to small and medium-sized businesses.

Board Member - Jill Farrell

Jill Farrell BA, MBA became Regional Operations Director, Scottish Enterprise (SE) on 1 April 2010 and is responsible for the team delivering activities in the west of Scotland.  Before that, she was Regional Operations Director - Tayside, a post to which she was promoted in 2008.

She was responsible for establishing and managing SE's International Advisory Board  and for developing the globalscot network. Jill spent time in the USA working with high- growth companies to attract high-value investment into Scotland and helping Scottish companies break into the US Market.

Jill is also a Director of Dundee Design Limited and Social Investment Scotland.

Board Member - Hamish McBride

Hamish is one of South Lanarkshire's best-known community activists. 

He spent 35 years as a manager with British Steel. After retiring, he enjoyed a spell as a consultant to the international steel industry, but now devotes much of his time and energy working on a wide range of local issues.

Hamish is involved in a wide range of South Lanarkshire community groups, including the Cathkin Neighbourhood Management Steering Group, Rutherglen Community Council and the Cambuslang Area Forum. He is also heavily committed to a number of voluntary-sector organisations working to achieve physical regeneration of improve residents' well-being. 

Board Member - Allan McQuade

Allan is Senior Director of Business Infrastructure for the West Region of Scottish Enterprise, which covers Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Ayrshire, Renfrewshire and Dunbartonshire.  He is responsible for all business property and wider place development matters - and such projects as the Clyde Corridor and West Urban Regeneration Companies (Clyde Gateway, Clydebank Rebuilt, Irvine Bay and Riverside Inverclyde).

Allan has over 30 years' property development and regeneration public-sector  experience in Glasgow, Ayrshire, Hong Kong, Argyll and Dunbartonshire. He is a Fellow of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors.

Board Member - George Redmond

George Redmond was elected to serve the Bridgeton/Dalmarnock ward on Glasgow City Council in 1999, which now includes Barrowfield, Calton and Parkhead. He is Chair of Culture and Sport Glasgow and in the past has served as chair of the the Planning Committee and the Property Committee.

Dalmarnock-born George has lived and worked there for most of his life. He is also the Chief Executive of BCD Credit-Union, based at Bridgeton Cross.

Having seen the distressing effects of high unemployment and low levels of investment, George is passionate about the positive impact that Clyde Gateway will have on our residents, and is 100 per cent committed to its completion.

Board Member - George Ryan

George Ryan BA has been a councillor for the Shettleston ward of Glasgow since 1995.

He is Executive Member, Development & Regeneration Services, with responsibility for economic investment, worklessness, planning, tourism, housing, economic and social regeneration, building control, transport policy and the Council’s property portfolio.

George recently completed a post-graduate degree to qualify as a Chartered Member of the Institute of Occupational Safety & Health. A member of the Scottish Lay Judiciary, he serves on employment tribunals and Ministry of Defence tribunals.

Board Member - Graham Scott

Graham was elected to South Lanarkshire Council (SLC) in 1995, and has served on all of its major committees. 

A former Chair of the East Kilbride Area Committee, he has acquired a knowledge and expertise on planning and regeneration matters which have been invaluable as Chair of the SLC Planning Committee since 1999, and of the Glasgow & Clyde Valley Structure Joint Plan Committee which is helping to shape and develop a range of activities in  Clyde Gateway.

Graham was also Director of Scottish Enterprise Lanarkshire between 2005 – 2008.

Board Member - Satty Singh

Satty is one of Scotland’s leading entrepreneurs.

In 1994, he opened Mr Singh’s India, located at Charing Cross, Glasgow, a hugely popular curry house with a world-wide reputation for quality.

Satty later successfully diversified into the family property business; and, in 2004,  acquired Mearns Castle Golf Academy, turning it into one of the country’s best and most popular venues to learn the sport under professional tuition. In 2008, he launched Golf in the Community as a grassroots project for East Renfrewshire pupils.

In 2005, he became the first Asian Director of the Rangers Youth Development Fund.

CLYDE GATEWAY DEVELOPMENTS BOARD

Ian Manson, Chris Thompson, Neil MacDonald, Allan McQuade and George Redmond of the Clyde Gateway Board also sit on the Board of Clyde Gateway Developments.

Other Board Members

John Gallacher

John Gallacher is Managing Director of Cruden Estates Limited based in Glasgow. He joined the Cruden Group in 1976 from Price Waterhouse and his career has seen him serve as Nanaging Director of Cruden Developments Limited and Cruden Building & Renewals Limited before taking up his present position.

He was formerly Chair of the Glasgow Economic Forum and is now a member of the Glasgow Economic Partnership.

John was also a Board member of Glasgow Community Planning Ltd, former Chair of the Construction Sub-Group of the Scottish Welfare to Work Task Force and for 12 years served as Chair of the Castlemilk Economic Development Agency. He was also a member of the Advisory Group on Skills for the Construction Industry for the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.