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Current Board Membership
Hamish Grant* (Chairman)
Hamish is currently a partner in AxisLLP a firm specialising in corporate recovery and due diligence. Born and educated in Newcastle Upon Tyne Hamish went to Nottingham University where he read Chemical Engineering. His first career was in the UK Oil and Gas industry rising to become UK Exploration and Production Manager for one of the UK listed E&P Companies. Leaving the oil industry over 15 years ago, Hamish has since founded two companies prior to AxisLLP. The first, Systems FX was a software company successfully developed over four years and sold to a competitor, and the second Axeon Holdings plc a battery technology company currently listed on the AIM market of the London Stock Exchange. Hamish is married with four children (all at Lathallan). As well as being Chairman of the Lathallan School board he is a member of Aberdeen University Engineering Advisory Board and a member of The Confederation of British Industry SME Council.
Derek Cowie*
Derek Cowie has a BSc from Edinburgh University and a Masters Degree in Engineering. He as worked for Shell for over twenty years, both in UK and internationally with responsibility for oil and gas field developments. He is married and has two sons in Lathallan senior school. During his time on the Board his contributions have included: development and business planning, estate development and fundraising.
Phil Garner
Phil Garner is the recently retired headmaster of Newcastle School for Boys and now owns a successful music shop in Newcastle upon Tyne. He lives on a Northumberland hill farm with his wife and sixteen year old son. He has been on the board for just over five years primarily to assist Lathallan School as it expanded into secondary schooling, having managed a very similar project at Newcastle School for Boys.
Sir Moir Lockhead, OBE
Moir Lockhead left school at 15 and started work as an apprentice mechanic. He joined Grampian Regional Transport in 1985 as General Manager, where he led a successful employee/management buy-out of the company in 1989. Since then, as founding Director and CEO of FirstGroup, he has seen the company grow to be the largest provider of rail and bus services in the UK, the USA and Canada. Sir Moir was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday Honours in 1996. In 2008 he was awarded a Knighthood for services to transport in the Queen’s Birthday Honours and was named IoD Scotland Director of the Year. He received an Honorary Degree of Doctor Honoris Causa from the University of Aberdeen as well as being appointed Senior Governor of the University Court. In 2010 Sir Moir was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Society of Operations Engineers. In May 2010 Sir Moir became the President of the Chartered Institute of Logistics & Transport. He is also a Board member of VisitBritain.
Duncan Campbell*
Duncan Campbell is a management consultant working for Mouchel, leading their Management Consulting business in Scotland and the North of England. He also runs Montrose Mini Rugby and is both a qualified coach and referee. Duncan was previously Chairman of the Lathallan Parents Association where he was instrumental in introducing new events and giving the aims and work of the Association a higher profile. Duncan is married with three children all of whom attend Lathallan prep school.
Kevin McCormick
Kevin joined the Board in 2009 and runs Aberdeen based creative marketing agency, Covey McCormick. Covey McCormick set up in business in 1988 and, with 20 years under its belt, is one of Aberdeen's longest established marketing and advertising agencies. From humble beginnings, Covey McCormick has grown in stature providing strategic and creative marketing services to a diverse base of clients across a wide range of market sectors, and is proud to have a FTSE 100 company among its clients.
Rev. Linda Broadley
Mrs Broadley was ordained into the Church of Scotland in rural Perthshire in 1996, having returned to university once her family of four were well on their way to independence. She completed a theology degree at Trinity College, Glasgow as a ‘mature’ student in 1994. Six years ago Linda moved to her second charge and became minister of Dun & Hillside parish just outside Montrose, where she currently pastors a lively congregation of mixed ages, from the very young, to the very old. Previously, in the 1960’s she trained as a PE teacher at Dunfermline College, then married and went to live in West Africa for eight years, where her husband worked for one of Unilever’s major subsidiaries.
Returning to Scotland in the 70’s the Broadleys ran a hotel in Edzell for eight years before moving to Fife very briefly and then Lanarkshire, from where Linda was involved in numerous charities and voluntary projects while encouraging an ever extending family and then returning to education herself.
What does she bring to the Board of Lathallan school ? Experience, faith, enthusiasm, sincerity and a desire to see the very best provision made for the pupils and staff so that the curriculum for excellence can be fully worked out and Lathallan will produce young citizens of superb quality and potential – that’s all!
*Current Parent
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