Baillie Gifford appoints Chris van der Kuyl as non-exec director insider.co.uk - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insider.co.uk Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
The Board is pleased to announce the appointment of Mr Chris van der Kuyl and Miss Rachael Palmer as non-executive Directors of the Company with effect from 1 June 2021.
Chris van der Kuyl is one of Scotland s leading entrepreneurs working across the technology, media, gaming and entertainment sectors. Chris is most notably co-Founder and Chairman of multiple award-winning games developer 4J Studios, best known for developing Minecraft for Microsoft, Sony and Nintendo games consoles. He and fellow co-Founder Paddy Burns launched Chroma Ventures, the investment arm of 4J Studios, in 2021.
Chris is also Chairman of Puny Astronaut, TVSquared, Broker Insights, Stormcloud Games and Parsley Box Plc and sits on the boards of Blippar, Ace Aquatec, and ADV Holdings. Alongside his commercial roles, he was the founding Chairman of Entrepreneurial Scotland and is currently a member of multiple advisory and local charity boards. Elected as one of the youngest Fellows of t
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Sandy Kennedy, left, and John Watson launching the campaign in March A CROWDFUNDING campaign to help Scotland become “the most entrepreneurial society in the world” by 2030 has smashed its target. Entrepreneurial Scotland has raised £140,000 from the drive, nearly twice the original £75,000 that it set out to achieve when it launched #FundTheFuture initiative in March. The funds will be used to increase the number of people who undertake the organisation’s programmes. These include the Saltire Scholar programme, which provides university students with the opportunity to spend the penultimate year of study an internship in Scotland or overseas. The cash raised will also be used to create a bursary scheme to fund its executive leadership programme. This will have a particular emphasis on supporting access for social entrepreneurs, whose vision and leadership benefits society.
Sandy Kennedy Fiona Campbell has it. Lucinda Bruce-Gardyne has it. Nadeem Sarwar has it. Grant Currie has it. Ryan O’Rorke and Assean Sheikh both have it. We all need it. Resilience. Resilience is a word often used, yet little understood. Right now, we crave resilience: for our children, for our teams, for our communities, for our firms, for our society, for our planet, for ourselves. The Oxford English Dictionary definition is: 1. the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness. 2. the ability of a substance or object to spring back into shape; elasticity. When everything is stable, trundling onwards, we don’t value resilience – we take it for granted. The status quo, the predictability of life, encourages us to ignore it.