Neil Brownlee
Neil Brownlee
Head of Business Events
Neil is in charge of the strategic direction of business events at a national level. He works closely with our city conventions bureaus, the Scottish Government, Scottish Enterprise and other public sector agencies to firmly align business events with Scotland's ambitions.
Rory Archibald
Rory Archibald
Senior Business Events Manager
Rory is responsible for driving the strategy for VisitScotland Business Events across all markets as well as overseeing marketing and PR for the department. Rory directs signature strategies across the team including the Business Events Government Engagement Framework, the Policy Driven Model and the Transformation Protocol, ensuring that every event has positive impact across Scotland's communities, academia, growth sectors, third sectors and government policy.
Lindsay Neilson
Lindsay Neilson
Senior Corporate & Incentive Business Development Manager - UK & Europe
Lindsay manages the highly knowledgeable and enthusiastic corporate and incentive team. A key focus is developing strong opportunities and platforms for UK & European MICE agents, corporate planners and decision makers to meet Scotland's excellent MICE suppliers, generating enquiries and confirmed business.
Richard Knight
Richard Knight
Senior Corporate & Incentive Manager - the Americas
Richard develops strategic communications and engagement platforms across North and South America with the aim to position Scotland at the top of mind with agencies, media and corporate clients alike. He develops a wide range of engagement platforms to fit the Scottish industries needs across sales, events and media.
Emma Richards
Emma Richards
Business Development Manager - UK
Emma is responsible for managing corporate and incentive business events from Southern UK & Ireland with a key focus on strategic sectors. She develops engagement platforms for third party agencies, corporate planners and decision makers to generate enquiries and confirmed business which can tie-in to the sector driven approach.
Theresa Steven
Theresa Steven
Business Development Manager - UK
Theresa is responsible for managing corporate and incentive business events from Northern UK & Ireland with a key focus on strategic sectors. She develops engagement platforms for third party agencies, corporate planners and decision makers to generate enquiries and confirmed business which can tie-in to the sector driven approach.
Marios Koutentakis
Marios Koutentakis
Marketing Manager
Marios is leading on the creation and implementation of VisitScotland's Business Events marketing strategy; including activation across all key markets and alignment with policy driven strategy and messaging. Also, lead on the creation and management of brand standards across all client and stakeholder touch points.
Patrick Lamont
Patrick Lamont
Business Events Policy Engagement Manager
Patrick works across the team to support the implementation of key strategies into market focused activities to help drive business events development in Scotland. Patrick leads on the Transformation Protocol and provides support in policy alignment across all business events activities including the Policy Driven Model and the Government Engagement Framework. Patrick manages the National Conference Bid Fund and the Scottish Association Survey.
Sian Williamson
Sian Williamson
Assistant Manager - Associations & Sectors
Sian is assisting to bring national and international association conferences to Scotland. Sian's wider role within the team involves the implementation of sales activity, researching association congresses and working with Scottish industry and key sector organisations. She is also supporting with the administration of the National Conference Bid Fund.
Heather McNee
Heather McNee
Corporate & Incentive Assistant Manager
Heather is responsible for delivering proactive sales activity and promotion in key European markets, focusing on strategic sectors. She creates engagement platforms with VisitScotland's French and German sales agencies to generate business from corporate buyers and intermediaries.
David Gerrard
David Gerrard
Events Graduate
David assists with the implementation of the trade events' marketing requirements and in delivering marketing strategy plans.
