Sheelagh is a senior executive and qualified lawyer with over 20 years of board level experience and a successful track record of leading complex projects and transactions in FTSE 100 and 250 companies; private equity owned businesses and public sector organisations.
Over many years as General Counsel and Company Secretary, Sheelagh has developed a thorough and practical understanding of corporate governance and the effective operation of boards.
Sheelagh has held senior executive roles within the corporate departments of Scottish Power plc; Scottish Television plc and The Miller Group Limited at times when these businesses were delivering extensive strategic and organisational change. As a result, Sheelagh has a wide range of experience from a variety of sectors encompassing corporate strategy; business planning; risk management; in-house legal; company secretarial and governance practices.
Sheelagh is a non-executive director with IndiNature, The National Theatre of Scotland and Cricket Scotland and a course leader for the Institute of Directors delivering the Role of the Director and the Board which is part of the Chartered Director qualification. She is a corporate governance consultant with Burness Paull, solicitors.