Jan 2009 – , Executive Director, Trong Trang Limited (Isle of Man)

I am leading the financial, legal and commercial aspects associated with this Real Estate development opportunity which is in Phu Quoc Island Vietnam. The Company has secured, through Regency International Bureau of Education Pty. Ltd., a 50 year lease on a 12.9 hectare parcel of land, and is well advanced in securing the necessary Operating Licenses. The intention is to build a hotel school, together with a resort hotel, spa and villa development. We are confident of securing a further 8 hectare residential development opportunity adjacent to our site. 

Sept 2010 - , Executive Director, Regency Bureau of Education Pty. Ltd. (Australia) 

This Company manages the day to day operational issues associated with the development opportunity being progressed by Trong Trang Ltd., see above.  I am responsible for all financial, legal and commercial aspects associated with this venture.  This Company will become, upon the securing of an Operating Licence, a wholly owned subsidiary of Trong Trang Ltd. .

March 2011 -, Chairman, Dukosi Limited.

The Company is a well established engineering  consultancy that has developed a very elegant, embedded, battery monitoring system, with considerable applications globally, not least with Electric Vehicles and Hybrid Electric Vehicles.   The Company has recently secured a design contract with a major, US based, multinational corporation. I am helping to develop the Company's current funding strategy, which may include, in the coming months, a possible listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) of the London Stock Exchange.

June 2009 - , Par Equity LLC

I am a member of the Par Equity investor syndicate www.parequity.com, and I have also become a member of their Advisory Panel. They are a Business Angel Syndicate through which I am currently evaluating a number of exciting opportunities.

1996 - , Owner and Manager, Ian Irvin and Co.

This is my own business through which I co-ordinate my current, and evolving, business activities.

 February 2011 - April 2011, Chairman, Dynamic Advertising Group Limited.

The Company is an advertising agency, centred in the social media space.  My principal focus with the company was the implementation of a robust system of Corporate Governance, together with a streamlining of the overall corporate structure. I led negotiations surrounding a refinancing of the business and also oversaw the Company's financial function. 

April 2010 - August 2010, Chairman, Shaw Water Engineering Limited.

The Company was introduced to me through my involvement with Par Equity, see above. It had an exciting technology which the previous management failed to properly deliver. The Company was insolvent when I joined the Board of Directors. I successfully positioned the Company for a re financing, dealing with the former owners and existing creditors, but despite our best efforts, we were unable to secure all of the funding needed for the refinancing to succeed.

Whilst this opportunity did not turn out as I had expected, I did, nonetheless, receive many favourable comments for the manner in which I headed the turnaround by positioning the Company to give it the best possible chance of success, notwithstanding the problems I had inherited.

October 2007 - March 2008, Non Executive Director, AMZ Holdings Plc (Isle of Man).

I was a founding Director of this Company. I was asked, by the Chairman, to remain on the Board until such times as the new management team was established and a further funding package was secured.

Apr 1998 – Sep 2007, Joint Managing Director and Finance Director, AMZ Holdings Plc (Isle of Man)

I co-founded this Group, formerly known as Amazing Holdings Plc, with a Taiwanese based colleague. We successfully brought the Company to AIM in December 2005. I was responsible for all aspects of the AIM Flotation. The Group had secured a 27 acre beach fronted site in the Penghu Islands, Taiwan and until recently was working steadily towards the establishment of a high quality, international Casino Resort development on the site.  The land was bought from almost 300 different land owners, doing so in a single consolidated transaction.  I was responsible for all the commercial, financial and legal issues associated with this land transaction.

In recognition of the work that I did with AMZ Holdings Plc I was nominated for, and became a finalist of, the prestigious Institute of Directors, Scotland, Director of the Year Award in 2006.

1998 - 2001, Executive Director, Water Separation Membrane Technologies Limited (Isle of Man)

I led the negotiations to secure the selling rights for Taiwan from the German based company, Rochem, who had an Ultra Filtration technology, which can convert black and grey water to drinking water.

1999-2000,  Non Executive Director, WorldArt.Com Limited

This company co-ordinated a global exposure of the arts using the Internet as its medium. It generated advertising income based on the volume of web traffic produced. It was also at the forefront of web based TV.  I set up the Company on behalf of the initial investors and established the financial function.

1998-2000, Non Executive Director, Festival Revue Limited

This company was established to provide a global exposure of the arts to the public during the Edinburgh International Festival through a combination of web TV, cable TV and other related Internet media. It was a wholly owned subsidiary of WorldArt.com Limited.

1998-1999, Commercial Director, Fisher Power Wave Ltd.

The company had patented a very efficient, and quite revolutionary, power tool. I put in place a £500,000 investment package for the company.

1994-1996, Finance Director, Magnum Power PLC

This company achieved a successful flotation on the Unlisted Securities Market of the London Stock Exchange in August 1994. I was responsible for all aspects of the flotation reporting directly to the Board.

1995-1996, Director Special Projects, Magnum Power PLC

I successfully concluded a partnership agreement with a US Corporation that had a suitable manufacturing plant in India. I also led the negotiations with the Sumitomo Corporation of Japan that resulted in a Distribution Agreement being signed and when I left in May 1996 we had quotations outstanding of US $140 million.

1990-1996, Executive Director, Magnum Power Solutions Limited

I co-founded this company in February 1990 and successfully took it from two £1 Ordinary Shares through to a successful Stock Market flotation as part of the Magnum Power PLC group.

There was considerable press, and professional, interest in the company and I was invited, as a result, by the Chairman of the Institute of Directors in Scotland to be a keynote speaker at Gleneagles for their Annual Conference in November 1994.

I am currently studying for the qualification of Chartered Director, under the auspices of the Institute of Directors

1980-1981

Completed the professional examinations for the Chartered Association of Certified Accountants. I was admitted as a Fellow in 1986

1978-1980

Scottish Higher National Diploma in Accountancy at Napier University, Edinburgh

Caledonian Club

London

Union Jack Club

London

Scott Moncrieff Alumni

Edinburgh

Royal Naval Association