Our Board
Sir Bob Scott – South London Business Chairman
Sir Bob Scott is a hard man to pigeon-hole. Perhaps the one thread that runs through a life in Sport and the Arts is “bidding”. For Manchester he bid for the Olympic Games in 2000 and the Commonwealth Games in 2002. In Greenwich, he bid for the Millennium Festival, which turned out to be the Dome. In June 2003 he led Liverpool’s successful bid to become the European Capital of Culture in 2008.
In 2008 he was appointed by the European Commission to be Chairman of the European jury which chooses and then monitors successive European Capitals of Culture. In London he is Chairman of Trinity Laban, Britain’s foremost Consevatoire of Music and Dance in Greenwich, City Screen (the Picturehouse chain of Cinemas), Greenwich Theatre and South London Business.
He spent 27 years in Manchester establishing and then running various Theatres, including the Royal Exchange, the Palace, the Opera House and Cornerhouse. He remains Chairman of the Granada Foundation.
Among several awards received, he is the only person to have been made “Mancunian of the Year” twice – in 1981 and 1993. Uniquely for a man identified with Manchester, he was named “Scouser of the Year” in 2003. He won the individual ETB England for Excellence Award for Tourism in 1993, was named BAIE Communicator of the Year in 1994, and was appointed an ‘Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres’ by the French government in 1991. He has received Honorary Degrees or Fellowships from 7 British Universities.
He was knighted in the 1994 New Year’s Honours List.
Born in Minehead, Somerset and educated at Haileybury and Merton College, Oxford, he is the son of former British Ambassador, Sir David Scott.
Sir Bob is married to Alicia Tomalino, has three children from this first marriage and two step-children.
CURRENT BOARD MEMBERS
* OBSERVERS
CAROL BAGNALD
AREA DIRECTOR
HSBC
RUSSELL BELL
SENIOR PARTNER
ASB LAW
GILES ELLERTON
SENIOR RELATIONSHIP MANAGER
BT – LONDON
ALISTAIR FRASER
PARTNER
MAZARS LLP
CHRISTOPHER FOGG
DIRECTOR
KINGSTON INNOVATION CENTRE
BRUCE MCDONALD
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
ROYAL BORUUGH OF KINGSTON UPON THAMES
PETER PLEDGER
CHIEF EXECUTIVE
SOUTH LONDON BUSINESS
DEVA PONNOOSAMI
MANAGING DIRECTOR
SOUTHERN MARKETING SERVICES
MICHAEL ROONEY
CHIEF OPERATING OFFICER
LONDON FIRST
HOWARD SCOTT
MANAGING DIRECTOR
NEWSQUEST SOUTH LONDON
REV. ANDREW WAKEFIELD
CHAIRMAN
MERTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE
DAVID WALSH
DIRECTOR
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If you would like more information on the South London Business board of directors, or feel you would like to contribute to the continued success of the local economy by joining the board, please contact Peter Pledger.
