David Whyte, Financial Controller and Director, Haven Products 

David is a graduate Chartered Accountant who began his career with Deloitte Haskins & Sells, where he progressed to the position of Technical Manager.  In 1984 he moved to the Clydesdale Electrical Group as Group Financial Controller and Company Secretary before moving to Glen TV Rentals Ltd as Finance Director.  David moved to the charity sector in 1991 as Finance Director of the British Red Cross in Scotland. In 1998 he became Director, Scotland and was involved in a number of national projects and committees across the UK.  He joined Haven Products, formerly owned by Red Cross in June 2000 having been a non-executive Director for a number of years in the 1990s looking after Red Cross's interest in the Company.  David is a Director of Social Firms Scotland. He was also the Vice-Chair of the British Association of Supported Employment (BASE) in Scotland and continues to lead joint initiatives with Remploy and the Scottish Executive on Public Sector Procurement.

david.whyte@havenproducts.co.uk

Dougie Taylor, Head of Operations, Momentum Skills

Dougie began his career in the advertising industry before enrolling at the University of Glasgow  where he graduated with a Master of Arts in English and History, and subsequently qualified as a teacher.  He then embarked on a career in the financial services sector and over the subsequent fifteen years built up his own business.  He joined Momentum in 1996 as a tutor before being appointed Centre Manager for Drumchapel and the Freshstart service in 1998. 2003 saw Dougie take on the role of Momentum's Partnership Manager. When the core services of Momentum came together under the Momentum Skills banner Dougie took on the role of Head of Operations with overall responsibility for this division of  services.

dougie.taylor@momentumscotland.org

Ruth Dorman, Head of Community Health and Social Care

Ruth is a social work graduate from Strathclyde University and a registered practitioner with the Scottish Social Services Council and the Nursing and Midwifery Council and has recently been awarded the postgraduate Diploma in Community Care. Ruth worked in the public sector for 27 years, both within health and social work. She has extensive experience of acute and primary health care services specialising in rehabilitation and gerontology, and as a manager within residential and community social work setting providing generic and specialist community care services and as a trainer in the Joint Futures arena for health and social care. Before leaving the public sector to joint Momentum Scotland, Ruth was one of the first managers responsible for the development and delivery of innovative integrated joint health and social work services for older people across Greater Glasgow Health Board and Glasgow City Council area.

ruth.dorman@momentumscotland.org

 

Steve Black, Head of Business Development, UK Services

Steve Black joined Momentum in 2002 initially as Employment Development Manager. In 2006 he became Momentum's Head of Business Development with this role extended to cover the whole of the UK in late 2008 following a restructure of Rehab Group in the UK activity. Steve's background spans the private, public and volunatry sectors in terms of health and social care. Steve has been an operational NHS manager in both Scotland and England and has worked for a range of diverse health and care providers across the UK since the early 1990's. In his role as Head of Development for the UK, Steve is responsible for the growth of new business activity across all of the Rehab Group in the UK entities. In addition, he is also responsible for leading the Rehab Group's UK service development activity and as a member of the UK Senior Management Team, Steve is responsible for supporting each of the Rehab Group UK operational heads in terms of new and existing development plans and opportunities.

stephen.black@momentumscotland.org  

Kenneth Richmond, Human Resource Manager

Kenneth is a chartered member of CIPD and holds an MSc in Personnel Management. He has been with Momentum since 1995 and, after an initial period of drawing up a development plan for another organisation on behalf of the company, he set up Momentum's Human Resources function. Prior to joining us, Kenneth spent a couple of years in other parts of the voluntary sector in a variety of roles incorporating Human Resources and Quality Assurance. He also has 25 years experience in industry with the Coats Viyella Group in a variety of UK locations, holding a wide range of manufacturing, sales, logistics and HR-related posts in line or support management. Much of his time was spent on successfully managing start-ups, re-organisation and rationalisation programmes/initiatives.

kenneth.richmond@momentumscotland.org

Jim Ross, Human Resources Adviser

Jim is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and has been employed in the fields of personnel, training and industrial relations for more than 40 years, 30 years at directorate level in local government with Strathclyde Regional Council. He has extensive experience in implementing HR procedures in the not-for-profit sector, where the procedures have to be sound, yet flexible and sensitive to the needs of innovative organisations with very limited budgets.  In a consultancy role, he has offered specialist HR advice on management and employment issues, change strategies and organisational development, recruitment, advertising, grievance, harassment, discipline, pay & grading, ill health and absence.

james.ross@momentumscotland.org

Nicky Neilson, Service Development

Nicky has worked in the area of disability for over 10 years working in specialised areas including brain injury rehabilitation, substance misuse, mental health and working with offenders.  She has continued to develop her skills in relation to training and development during the last 10 years.  She worked as a Regional Trainer for STRADA (Scottish Training for Drugs and Alcohol) delivering bespoke drug and alcohol training to health professionals, social work and care, users, ex-users and other groups within the field.  Nicky's current role is with Service Development which involves developing new and progressing existing programmes within Momentum, developing, implementing and facilitating the staff training and knowledge programme and also the roll-out of EFQM Excellence framework throughout the organisation.

nicky.neilson@momentumscotland.org

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