Background
He was born in Glasgow in 1955 and educated at Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School in Cardonald and at the University of Glasgow where he graduated Master of Arts in Economic History and Politics.
He was born in Glasgow in 1955 and educated at Our Lady of Lourdes Secondary School in Cardonald and at the University of Glasgow where he graduated Master of Arts in Economic History and Politics.
University of Glasgow.
He is the former managing director of the Slough-based Amazon.co.uk in the United Kingdom. During his time at university he was president of Glasgow University Union. He joined Xerox in 1977 and subsequently worked for International Business Machines Corporation, Dell, and, from 2003 to 2005, T-Mobile where he was managing director He was also a non-executive director of the Scottish football club, Celtic F.C. from 2006 to 2010.
He has served as a Non-Executive Director of the British Broadcasting Corporation and Computacenter Public Limited Company, and served on the Advisory Board of Huawei United Kingdom.
He is Senior Non-Executive Director at Association for the Study of Internal Fixation.com Public Limited Company, senior adviser to Scottish Equity Partners, a member of the United Kingdom Government’s Digital Advisory Board (established in April 2012 to help steer the digital delivery of government services to citizens in the United Kingdom) and he is a member of the Court of the University of Glasgow.