The Herald Scottish Family Business Awards

Fraser is responsible for the audit of large groups of companies and international clients as well as advising a diverse range of owner managed and family businesses. Sector experience includes energy & utilities, technology, manufacturing, food and beverage, retail, distribution, property, tourism and leisure.

Fraser leads the firm’s Family Business Advisory team and takes a particular interest in assisting business families balance the conflicting pressures of family and business life. He is a regular panellist at industry events and is a frequent commentator on financial, regulatory and taxation matters.

He also gained valuable experience early on in his career working overseas with international groups, Canadian and US GAAP providing transaction support and a spell in corporate banking.

Launched in 2003 by Maggie and business partner Stuart Gilmour, Stand has been named Scottish Design Consultancy of the Year on three separate occasions and the agency has collected numerous strategic and creative awards for work carried out for clients across the public sector, private sector and third sector.

Maggie has extensive experience of cross-discipline brand planning for some of Scotland’s most prolific brands including Skyscanner, Tennent’s Lager and AG Barr and the country’s most prestigious public sector organisations such as the Scottish Parliament, Historic Scotland, Skills Development Scotland and Zero Waste Scotland.

Over the last five years Maggie has immersed herself in the Zero Waste Scotland brand, gaining valuable expertise in the field and becoming passionate about the changes that sustainable practice can bring about.

Maggie has always been a firm believer of collaborative working processes and particularly of stakeholder engagement as a process to inform a brief, rationalise a proposal and gain adoption from users. 95% of Stand’s projects are informed by a stakeholder process.

Maggie is as driven creative business owner and a member of the Design Business Association and Institute of Directors Scotland.

Her advanced training as a family business advisor and qualified coach lets her work collaboratively with business families of all stages of life and business, and with their trusted professional advisors in a multi disciplinary effort.

After ten years’ boardroom experience at Mactaggart & Mickel, a company she continues to be an active shareholder of, she lists her additional roles as: A family business governance trainer for the IOD, a faculty member on the FFI’s ‘Certificate of family business advising’ and an NED on a 2nd Gen family business board in Colorado.