Crawford Beveridge

He was given the honour of a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1995[1] and was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in 2016.

[2] Beveridge's business background included Hewlett-Packard, Digital Equipment Corp. and Analog Devices.

[3] In 1985, he joined Sun Microsystems as vice president of corporate resources, where he stayed until 1991,[4] when he left and took the position of chief executive of Scottish Enterprise.

[5] In 2000, he returned to Sun to fill the position of executive vice president of people and places and chief human resources officer.

[3] He was a board member of corporations outside of Sun, including Autodesk,[6] Memec and Scottish Equity Partners.