About Crawford Gillies

Crawford Gillies is Chairman of premium spirits company, The Edrington Group Ltd, and a Director of Barclays plc and SSE plc. He spent 25 years with Bain & Company, the international management consultants, advising major companies and filling numerous senior leadership positions. Previous positions include Chairman of Scottish Enterprise (2009 – 2015) and Director of several organisations, including Standard Life, Control Risks and Touch Bionics. With an interest in entrepreneurial leadership, Crawford helped launch, and was the first Chair, of the Saltire Foundation. He is a graduate of the Harvard Business School and the University of Edinburgh. Crawford Gillies had a lengthy career with Bain & Company, the international management consultants. During that period he advised companies from a range of sectors on matters of corporate strategy, acquisitions, performance improvement and organisation. From 1996 to 2000 he was responsible for Bain’s business in the UK and assumed leadership of the firm’s European business from 2001 to 2005. He was also a member of the Management and Strategy Boards of the DTI from 2002 to 2007. Prior to joining Bain, Crawford qualified as a chartered accountant.  He is a former Chairman of CBI London