Our People

David was born in Dundee and went to school at Blackness Primary and Harris Academy before going on to university. A Chartered Surveyor by profession, he worked for a multi-national property advisory company at the Director level and now has his own consultancy operating UK-wide. His ancestry goes back over two hundred years in the city and includes forefathers who worked in the jute industry. David is also an accomplished polar adventurer, having skied to both the North and South Poles and has taken part in several other remote area expeditions, too. Consequently, he has a strong interest in and knowledge of polar history. He is also currently a Trustee of the Royal Scottish Geographical Society.

Angus is currently Group Finance Director of Star Refrigeration, the UK’s largest industrial refrigeration engineering company. A graduate of Dundee University and Chartered Accountant, training with KPMG at their Royal Exchange offices in Dundee from 1992 to 1997.

Angus maintained his connections with Dundee over the next 6 years whilst working with Low & Bonar across head-office, divisional and business unit roles as his industrial experience developed. International roles followed over 10 years with the Howden Group in the heavy engineering sector, including 4 years as European Industrial Fan Division MD, developing customer relationships for business expansion as well as turnaround and M&A projects.

Lorna is a partner in the Private Client team at Blackadders in Dundee.  She has over 20 years of experience in the private client field.  She gives advice on all areas of private client including wills, powers of attorney, administration of estates, inheritance tax planning and creation and administration of trusts. 

Lorna regularly presents to the public and the profession on trusts and trust compliance and is a speaker with MBL Seminars.

Lorna sits as a Trustee on a number of charitable trusts and is a board member of Tenovus Tayside & North East Fife.  She is a former module organiser and tutor on the Diploma in Legal Practice at Dundee University and a former examiner for the Society of Trust & Estate Practitioners.

Stuart Cunningham is an observational Physical Oceanographer specialising in ocean measurements for climate studies. He began his career in 1990 with the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Deacon Laboratory as a research assistant in the World Ocean Circulation Experiment, then at the James Rennell Centre, Chilworth, Southampton. From 1995-2012 he worked at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton. He is now a Professor at the Scottish Association for Marine Science and the University of the Highlands and Islands. He has led 35 research cruises as Principal Scientist around the world’s oceans. Since the early 2000s Stuart has focused on purposefully designed mooring arrays. He was an originating Principal Investigator and led the RAPID field programme for ten years. He is now a Principal Investigator in the subpolar OSNAP programme for observing and monitoring the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC).

The AMOC is a central component of Earth’s climate and moves heat and property fluxes around the globe. One of the major predictions of climate change in the 21st Century is a slowing of this circulation and this will have profound impacts on how Earth’s climate changes. He was one of the three PIs who proposed RAPID mooring array programme (https://rapid.ac.uk/) and he managed the array from 2003-2012. He now is a PI as part of the international OSNAP programme (https://www.o-snap.org/) measuring the AMOC from Newfoundland to Greenland to Scotland. The goal of these arrays is to provide the fundamental observations of the changing AMOC so we can better understand the physics of the circulation and to constrain models of climate.

Richard is Arbroath born and bred. He studied for a HND in Biological Sciences before going on to complete his honours degree in Biotechnology at Dundee Institute of Technology. Research followed and he was awarded a PhD on the topic of compost and composting from Abertay University in 2002 when he also became a Chartered Biologist. Richard was involved in environmental consultancy and teaching for a number of years.

Currently he is a part-time lecturer at Fife College, where he teaches both Facilities Management and Business Management. Richard is a GTCS registered teacher in further education. Since 2023, Richard has been an external verifier and qualifications development specialist for Qualifications Scotland.

In 2010 he joined Radio North Angus (RNA), initially as a presenter but now he also serves as a director. Richard presents two highly successful and well regarded shows each week: “The Vintage Wednesday Breakfast Programme” (7.30 to 10am) and “The 602 Jazz Club” on Fridays between 6 and 7.30pm broadcast on FM, DAB and online.

Since 2013 he has been a costumed volunteer guide at the Verdant Works Museum. Over the years he has met thousands of visitors from all over the world, as well as schoolchildren on educational visits and several VIPs. He is writing a history of the Verdant Works. He became Chair of The Friends of Dundee Heritage Trust in 2026.

In 2025 he was elected Regional Coordinator for Scotland and became a Trustee of the British Association of Friends of Museums (BAFM) and was appointed Vice Chair of the organisation in 2026. He is also editor of its journal.

Richard became a member of the Weaver Incorporation of Dundee in 2014, one of the famous Nine Incorporated Trades of the city. Between 2023 – 2025 he had the honour of being Deacon of the Weaver Incorporation; a community organisation founded in 1512.

Richard has sung with the Arbroath Male Voice Choir since 2005 and has held various offices within the group. Since 2023, Richard has acted as a carer for his mum who has been diagnosed with Alzheimer’s Disease.

Rachel Mackay is Head of Hampton Court Palace at Historic Royal Palaces, leading the palace’s operations and visitor experience. Her career has focused on creating and delivering memorable experiences across some of the UK’s best-known museums, heritage sites and visitor attractions, including Madame Tussauds, the Natural History Museum and Kew Palace. 

Her career in the sector began on the front line, in the café at Verdant Works in her hometown of Dundee—an early introduction to the importance of every stage of the visitor journey. Rachel writes VEXblog, a regular Substack on visitor experience, and is the author of Delivering the Visitor Experience, published in 2023 

Richard Neville is a journalist with extensive experience in the Scottish media. He is a director of the media and communications consultancy Neville Robertson Communications Ltd. He was previously the Head of Newspapers for DC Thomson Media, overseeing The Courier and The Evening Telegraph in Dundee and The Press and Journal and The Evening Express in Aberdeen, as well as The Sunday Post. He previously edited both The Courier and The Press and Journal.

Richard is passionate about helping to drive change in Dundee and devised and launched the successful Courier Business Awards to help celebrate success across the region. Richard is also a board member of Creative Dundee and a member of the Fundraising Board at The Maggie’s Centre in Dundee.

Previously Richard was Editor of Business a.m., the critically acclaimed Scottish daily business and political newspaper that closed in 2003. He has also been Deputy Editor of The Scotsman and worked as a reporter for The Daily Record and Edinburgh Evening News, and ran the newsdesk of the York Evening Press.