• THE TEAM
• THE BOARD

The Board

Ros Davis (Acting Chair)

Film Commissioner, Marketing Edinburgh, Film Focus. Ros Davis was born in Cambridge but raised and educated in Edinburgh. A degree in Film and Media and Psychology from Stirling University led into a 6 year career in television working as a Production Manager in documentaries and 2 years working for the Edinburgh International Film Festival before joining Edinburgh Film Focus (EFF) in 1995. EFF promotes Edinburgh, the Lothians and the Scottish Borders as a filming location. Ros took over running Edinburgh Film Focus in 2004. In 2011 EFF joined the Edinburgh Convention Bureau and Destination to form Edinburgh Marketing Ltd. Ros lives in Edinburgh with her husband and two teenage children.

Ginnie Atkinson

Ginnie Atkinson is currently a freelance consultant and project manager. She was Managing Director of Edinburgh International Film Festival for 15 years until January 2010. She was also CEO of The Filmhouse for 5 years (2005-2010), bringing both organisations to cultural and business harmony to the point of the merger in November 2009 and was also involved in the scoping of the Centre for Moving Image initiative. She represented EIFF on the Festivals Edinburgh Board. She ran the commercials production arm of Picardy Television and has been involved in various film projects in different capacities. She is a board member of Craft Scotland and the Cultural Enterprise Office. She has a background in education, theatre and photography.

Councillor Deidre Brock

Deidre Brock is Convenor of the Culture and Leisure Committee for the City of Edinburgh Council and SNP Councillor for the Leith Walk ward. Originally from Australia, after gaining a BA in English she trained as an actor at the WAAPA in Perth and worked in Sydney for many years. Prior to the 2007 election, Councillor Brock worked for three years at the Scottish Parliament as parliamentary assistant to Rob Gibson MSP. Deidre sits on the boards of the Festival City Theatres Trust, Edinburgh Leisure, the Centre for the Moving Image, the RSNO, and is also Convenor of the Jean F Watson Bequest committee.

June Edgar

After over 20 years in economic development with Scottish Enterprise - the last 9 spent developing a Creative Industries strategy for Scotland, June established her own consultancy, Creative Business Advisor, to promote our creatives and artists, help to address the issues facing them, and provide research, contacts and advice. Her background includes strategic input to arts organisations and was a decision-maker for 5 formative years of the Scottish Arts Council Capital Lottery and one of 4 members of the Management Group which bid for and achieved the title, Glasgow, UNESCO City of Music.

Mark Gorman, Head of Thinking, Think Hard

Mark views creativity from both ends of the creative industry's continuum. As a photographer, blogger, Director of The Royal Lyceum Theatre and Chair of Edinburgh's most established youth theatre at one end; and as a seasoned and active mentor and practitioner in the advertising, marketing, PR, research and digital communications sector at the other. As ex-chair of the IPA in Scotland, and an active mobiliser of opinion through the Marketing Society, the SMA and the SMC Action Group, barely a year has passed in the last twenty when Mark could not be seen purposefuly advocating the value of creativity to the economy of his beloved home city of Edinburgh.

Robin Macpherson

Robin is Director of the Institute for Creative and Industries and Professor of Screen Media at Edinburgh Napier University. He is also Director of Screen Academy Scotland, a Skillset Film and Media Academy partnership with Edinburgh College of Art and leads ENGAGE, an EU MEDIA-funded collaboration with the Irish, Estonian and Finnish national film schools. Formerly a documentary film and television producer with Scottish and UK BAFTA nominations, he joined Edinburgh Napier University in 2002 from Scottish Screen where he was head of development. In 2010 he was appointed by the Scottish Government to the Board of Creative Scotland.

Jeffrey Meek BA, MBA, CA, CMC, MSI, FCMI, FRSA

Jeff is a commercially aware and innovative Certified Management Consultant and Chartered Accountant, actively involved in developing clients' businesses, with a understanding of the markets within which they operate, he is regarded as a key player in the Creative and technology sectors in Scotland. His professional interests are matched by his personal involvement in the arts through TIGA, BAFTA and the RSA. Consultancy assignments have included advising on accounting policies, Royalty Audits for developers and licence holders, successful claims for Research and Development tax credits, valuation of shares for tax purposes, setting up share option schemes under EMI and other structures, development of Business Strategy, business plans, funding documents and financial models, due diligence for funders and acquirers, obtaining and negotiation of funding terms from bank, grant, angel and venture capital sources.

David Weir

Studied at Aberdeen University, trained and practiced as a lawyer in Glasgow and then London before moving to live and work in France. Since 2000, as Director of Dovecot Studios, he has devoted his time to re-energizing and developing the artistic vision and activity of Dovecot Studios, a specialist contemporary tapestry studio originally established in 1912. With the financial support and backing of Alastair Salvesen, David was able to help negotiate the acquisition and subsequent re development of Infirmary Street Baths, a derelict former Victorian Baths in the Centre of Edinburgh. He is now developing the Dovecot building as a leading cross discipline art, exhibition and event space for craft and design with Dovecot Studios as a dynamic and active tapestry studio at it's centre. David also lectures frequently about the work of Dovecot Studios, as FRSA is a former Scottish Committee member of the RSA and is a member of the Worshipful Company of Weavers.