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Chairman
Donald Biggar was appointed Chairman of Quality Meat Scotland in October 2005. He manages the family farming business near Castle Douglas where the main enterprises are beef and lamb production. The farm is also home of the Chapelton Beef Shorthorn and Aberdeen Angus herds of pedigree cattle.
Donald was Chairman of the Royal Smithfield Club from 1997-99 and is also a Director of WCF Ltd, he was appointed as a Director of SAC in October 2006.
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Farms Director of a large scale mixed farming business.
He is a Fellow of the Royal Agricultural Societies (FRAS). He was a founding member, director and chairman of several livestock and arable marketing co-ops in the 80s and 90s. He has been a Director of the Scottish Agricultural College and a Governor of the Rowett Institute.
He is also a member of the Scottish Agricultural College's Consultative Council and a Director of the Royal Highland Education Trust.
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Alistair has considerable knowledge of the processing sector. He has on farm experience and gained practical knowledge of the red meat sector within the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries Scotland Livestock Inspectorate and the Meat and Livestock Commission over a period of 16 years.
From 1984, he was responsible as Chief Officer, then General Manager, for all Meat and Livestock Commission activities in Scotland. He was QMS Technical Director from 2000-2002. From 2002 to January 2008 he was Executive Manager of the Scottish Association of Meat Wholesalers.
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Henry has run his own farm business for the past 30 years. He worked as an Agricultural Adviser in the Western Isles, as a Farm Manager of the College Farm in Sutherland, and then as an Advisor in the Lothians.
He spent 28 years working in Agribusiness roles with the Clydesdale Bank and was one of eight leaders of its Business Executive Team in the UK. He is currently a Board member of the Scottish Agricultural College, Director of the Royal Highland Centre Ltd for the past three years.
He was Vice-President of the Royal Highland Agricultural Society in 2001 and a member of the Society's Executive Committee for the past six years.
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General Manager of Aberdeen Northern Marts Ltd since 1996, prior to which he was the Business Development Manager. He has been heavily involved in the development of Thainstone Centre over a number of years.
In his early career, he was an agricultural adviser with the Scottish Agricultural College in Aberdeen, Inverness and the Western Isles. He was also a Director of the Lewis and Harris Livestock Co-operatives. He is currently junior vice-president of the Institute of Auctioneers and Appraisers in Scotland.
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Robert runs a beef and sheep farm. He was involved in the development of Buccleuch Lamb Group of which he was a Director for three years.
NFU Scotland membership at local Branch level led to involvement at national level, culminating in recent experience as its Vice President. He holds the positions of Chairman of the Scottish Sheep Marketing Forum and Board Member of Elmwood College. He is a current Board Member of QMS with responsibility for the Sheep Strategy Group.
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Managing Director of Scottish Pig Producers Ltd and current Director of Wholesome Pigs (Scotland) Ltd.
He is a current member of the QMS Board and Chair of QMS's Pig Forum and Standard Setting Body. He is also a member of the NFU Scotland (Pigs Working Group).
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Manages a large beef enterprise and is currently both a NFU Scotland Regional Board member and NFU Scotland Highland Region Livestock Committee representative.
He is also Chairman of North Highland Products, a farmer led marketing organisation. He was Chairman of the Caithness NFU Scotland from 2001-2003 and was Director of the farmer co-op - Caithness Livestock Breeders from 1999-2004.
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Owns and runs a 200 hectare beef and sheep unit near Stranraer. In 2004 his farm became a Monitor Farm and in 2006 he was awarded a Nuffield Scholarship studying beef production in Argentina, Uruguay and Australia.
He has been a Board Member of Wigtownshire Quality Lamb for the past six years and Treasurer for the last four.
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Runs a mixed farm and since 2004 has been Chairman of Scotlean Pigs, a marketing co-op selling 10,000 pigs per week. He was Chairman of the NFU Pig Committee from 1997-2000, a member of the British Pig Executive (BPEX) from 2001-2003 and the Scottish Pig Industry Initiative Board from 1997 to 2003.
He is currently a member of the Royal Highland Education Trust and has been a Board Member of the Scottish Agricultural Organisation Society since 2003.
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Jim owns a butcher shop and has extensive experience of the processing sector. He was founder member of the Scotch Quality Beef and Lamb Association from 1973-78 and a Commissioner of the Meat and Livestock Commission from 1978-1995.
From 1989-92 he was chair of Farm Assured Scotch Livestock. He is currently a Governor of the Robert Gordon University. He was Chair of NHS Grampian until October 2007.
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Philip has a good knowledge of agriculture and the food-chain through working in research, consultancy and education in the sector.
He has held posts at the University of Leeds, Hannah Research Institute, West of Scotland Agricultural College, University of Glasgow, and was Chief Executive of the Scottish Agricultural College.
Since 1999 he has worked as an independent consultant and researcher focusing on agriculture, agricultural supply and food industries. He is currently a Board Member of Scottish Natural Heritage and Chairman of Central Scotland Forest Trust.
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QMS Chief Executive
‘Uel is a graduate in Agricultural and Food Marketing from the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. He also holds the Diploma in Marketing and graduated with an MBA from Edinburgh Business School in 1997.
As QMS's accountable officer he is responsible for safeguarding all funds falling within the stewardship of QMS. He also has specific responsibility for:
- planning, performance management and monitoring,
- advising the board,
- managing risk and resources
- accounting for QMS's activities.
As well as leading the day-to-day management of the organisation he is the link between the strategy developed by the board and its successful implementation.
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