Trustees Scotland

The board of trustees for CCCS Scotland (registered in Scotland) has a subset of the members of the FCC board, with one addition.

Lord Stevenson of Balmacara (chair)

Wilf Stevenson chairs the board.

Lord Stevenson became a life peer in the House of Lords in July 2010, having advised the former Prime Minister Gordon Brown on constitutional affairs. He was a key adviser to Brown throughout his time in government, and in 2008 was brought in by the then Prime Minister to oversee proposals to reform the constitution.

Previously, he directed the British Film Institute (1988-97) and the Smith Institute (1997-2008), a progressive think tank.

Lord Stevenson is an affiliate for FTI Consulting Inc, an international business advisory firm. In addition to being a governor at Chiltern Way – a Buckinghamshire federation of secondary schools for boys with Special Educational Needs – he is a trustee of Hypospadias UK and a school governor.

Alex Dalgleish

Alex is chancellor and treasurer of the Priory of St Margaret of Scotland, Order of St John of Jerusalem, Knights Hospitaller – an Order of Chivalry dating back to the Crusades. He served 38 years in retailing, initially in store accounting and subsequently specialising in consumer credit serving on the Board of House of Fraser (Stores Management) Ltd as director of credit services. He is a past chairman of the Consumer Credit Trade Association and past vice-chairman of Cifas. Alex was a member of the working party for the setting up of CCCS (Scotland) and is a founding Trustee.

Jeremy Burton

Jeremy is a trustee of several charities based in the Leeds area. He is Honorary French Consul in Leeds and is also a founding trustee.

Daniel Phelan

Daniel Phelan is editor-in-chief of Civil Society Media which publishes the magazines Charity Finance, Professional Fundraising and Governance. He founded the Charity Awards, an annual UK wide programme recognising excellence in charity management.

Sir Geoff Mulcahy

Sir Geoff has a long and distinguished career in retailing that began in 1982 when, after working in the sugar, engineering and oil industries, he joined Kingfisher. He became group managing director of Kingfisher in 1984 and retired as chief executive in 2002 after building it into the largest non-food retailer in the UK, operating in 13 countries worldwide and overseeing the group's demerger into three quoted companies.

He is currently chairman of Javelin Group, a retail consultancy, and a non executive director of Instore plc and The Home World. He has degrees from Manchester University and Harvard Business School. Sir Geoff was knighted in 1993 and became chairman of the British Retail Consortium in July 2006.

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