Inspiring City Awards 2019

Award-winning Editor with more than 25 years’ experience editing National, Regional, Sunday, Daily and Weekly titles across the UK.

Editor-in-Chief at Newsquest Scotland overseeing a portfolio of Scottish national titles The Herald, Sunday Herald and The National; regional dailies The Evening Times and Greenock Telegraph, and; weekly titles in Fife & Forth Valley, Lothians & Borders, North & South Clyde, Ayrshire, plus the Impartial Reporter in Ireland.
Previously Head of Publishing for DC Thomson’s magazines including The People’s Friend, My Weekly, Scots Mag, Scottish Wedding Directory and No1 Magazine and Editor-in-Chief of DC Thomson Newspapers and Editor of The Sunday Post and Weekly News.
Editor-in-chief of the Herald and Evening Times, Editor of the Evening Times, Editor of the Evening Express in Aberdeen, Editor of the North West Evening Mail in Cumbria, deputy editor of the Cambridge Evening News, chief sub and production editor at the Reading Evening Post and Group Editor at Thames Valley Free Newspapers.
He won his first editorship at the age of 24, launching the Edinburgh and Lothians Post.
Donald also serves on the UK board of the Society of Editors and was a past president.

He spent 6 years working in a variety of roles including project management at the economic development agency, Lothian and Edinburgh Enterprise Ltd and then moved to LEEL’s sister agency, the Glasgow Development Agency as the Project Manager for the creative industries including working with companies involved in the film, television and design sectors.

A switch to the private sector followed with a move as Marketing and Business Development Manager at 1576 Advertising Ltd in Edinburgh and 18 months later became Marketing manager for Radio Clyde in Glasgow. Richard spent over 8 years as marketing Manager before being promoted to Marketing Director for both Radio Clyde and Radio Forth, both market leading radio stations in their respective areas. Richard joined the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce as Commercial Director in December 2009 and was promoted to Deputy Chief Executive in July 2012.

He lives in the Trossachs and has a passion for sports, outdoor pursuits, travel and Spain and tries to indulge as often as possible.

After specialising in neonatal intensive care, she moved into education and research, working at  Forth Valley College of Nursing and Midwifery, the University of Glasgow and the Royal College of Midwives, before moving to the Scottish Government.

In 2010 she was appointed Deputy Chief Nursing Officer with a wide portfolio including the International Health lead for Scottish Government Health Directorates.

In 2011 she was appointed Executive Nurse Director for NHS Tayside and appointed Executive Nurse Director with NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde in September 2015.

Carole Anne McCann is Group Recruitment Manager at Arnold Clark, the UK’s largest independently owned car retailer. As well as selling cars, the Group also supplies business leasing and fleet services, car finance and insurance, vehicle aftercare, servicing, MOTs, accident repairs, and an accident management service.

Carole Anne started working at Arnold Clark 11 years ago in the Recruitment team, and has since been promoted several times, most recently to the role of Group Recruitment Manager in August 2019. She strongly believes that candidates are due the same respect and treatment as our customers, and we should place their experience at the heart of our strategic focus. We want every applicant to be treated equally, and their needs and requirements to be considered. We pride ourselves on encouraging as diverse a range of people to consider applying to the Group as possible, and we’re always looking for ways to enhance our talent pool and bring a greater variety of skills and knowledge on board.