Creativefife

Stuart Dell – Business Advisor – Key Sectors

Employed by Business Gateway and funded through Fife Council my role is to develop identified key sectors within Fife.  Key sector development is about enabling economic growth with Creativefife being the initial focus of attention.  I am the first point of contact for anyone interested in our initiative. 

Steve Blaney – Senior Partner,

Kingdom Promotions – Printing/Publishing/Graphic Design

Steve is the current Chair of Creativefife.  He has run Kingdom Promotions for 25 years. Before staring the company in 1998, he trained as a graphic designer, before joining the Fife Free Press Group where he worked as a advertising rep. He ended up his time with the FFP as Advertisement manager, then was tourist promotions officer for Fife for 7 years.
Kingdom Promotions produces business directories, visitor guides and Eating Out in Fife as well as promotional brochures and business print. When not working, Steve enjoys sailing, music, golf and cycling.

Ruth Walls – Gallery Owner –

Art Room 59

I opened Art Room 59 in autumn 2005.

Situated on the outskirts of Dunfermline town centre, the gallery provides a showcase for a variety of artists, craftspeople and designers, many of whom are local to Dunfermline and Fife.

My main aims are to raise the awareness of the creative talent within Fife and promote quality, original and affordable art across a wide range of disciplines including painting, ceramics, glass, metalwork  and jewellery to name a few, and in turn encourage more people to buy original, handcrafted work.

I have a regular exhibition programme and support artists at all stages of their careers, from graduates, newly emerging artists, and to those who have already established themselves.

Ian Paltiel 
Internet Creation Ltd

Internet Creation Ltd is a web design company based in Dunfermline, the company has 2 principle directors, Ian Paltiel is the Commercial Director and Mike Sutherland is the Technical Director. The company has been trading since 2000 and has an impressive portfolio of over 270 clients across all business sectors. We offer personally tailored web design and administration services. Our expert team of designers and programmers are dedicated to producing high quality websites for our clients.

Alastair Graham – Chartered Architect  (A.R.I.A.S.)

Gillespie & Scott Architects

 I am involved with a wide range of projects throughout Fife predominantly in the domestic and commercial sectors with a specific interest in green building issues and smaller scale community developments.

The firm is also involved with an Scottish architectural network which specializes in self build housing.

Barbara Whiting
Economic Adviser - Key Business Sectors
Fife Council, Economic Development

After qualifying at Leeds Polytechnic, Barbara spent 18 months working and travelling in Europe and Australia before taking up a career in the advertising industry as an Account Manager. After several years working in London, Barbara relocated to Perthshire with her husband to develop their own hotel business focusing primarily on the golfing market. Following the sale of the business after 12 successful years, Barbara took on a new role with Telford Development Agency (TDA) based in the Midlands. As TDA's Investor Development Manager, she was involved in development of one of the countries first economic regeneration companies before taking on her current role with Fife Council as Economic Adviser, focusing on key business sectors.

Graeme Campbell

Graeme originally trained at the University of Stirling and Edinburgh College of Art in Film Studies and Television Production. Following a period working for Strathclyde Regional Council as a cameraman and community based video worker, he established Lanarkshire based, Artemis Films and produced a series of genre based feature films culminating in the MacTaggart Television Award Winner ‘Ghost Dancer’.
Working as a visiting Film Production Lecturer at Motherwell College and the University of Paisley, Graeme was invited to develop the new television department at Borders College, which he did, establishing an HND course and the College’s first commercial video unit.
Following this, Graeme took up the post of Film & Media Development Officer for Fife Council. This resulted in a number of community based initiatives and the establishment of the Fife Film & Video Workshop, a training, equipment and crew resource. This later grew into the Moving Image Media Access Centre ( MIMAC ).
Following internal changes within Fife Council, MIMAC was transferred into the social enterprise sector and became the community interest company MiMAC-Rushes C.I.C. with Graeme as Director of Operations. MiMAC continues it’s role as a media access organisation and has recently added high definition to it’s facility hire service, launched Channel Fife a web broadcast TV channel and produced a major archival cinema project with the Scottish Screen Archive and the Glasgow Film Theatre. Graeme maintains his role as an independent film producer and is presently developing  genre based feature film projects, with Fife based Glass Bullet Productions Ltd.

 

Julie Edgar

Julie Edgar Communications

Julie Edgar is an award winning freelance PR consultant, specialising in media relations, strategic PR advice, and crisis management.

Previously, she was Communications Director for Scottish Quality Salmon, and has held senior positions in a number of food, lifestyle and

business organisations.She has a proven track record in devising successful communications programmes to reach a wide range of audiences - media,

political, consumer and retailer.

Julie offers a personal, professional and flexible approach; able to work with you as a member of your team or discretely on projects to meet

your PR and Communications objectives. Clients value both her strategic PR counsel and hands on ability to get the job done.

Don Mitchell

Centre for Creative Technologies

Adam Smith College

Business Development – Centre for Creative Technologies, Adam Smith College.

Trained as a Recording Engineer at Polygram Studios London, then as In-house Engineer and Record Producer for MCA Universal, London for 12 years, with extensive creative project management experience. Branched into independent and corporate multimedia event installation before joining Glenrothes College in 1999. Since then I have been involved in the design and building of the recording studio facilities at the CCI, Glenrothes, developing and running of industry certified Digidesign Protools Pro school for Adam Smith College, and I have been involved in the development of the Creative Business Centre, based in Kirkcaldy, for new and developing creative business.

John Maclean
  JMC MarketingLtd

Established as Direct Marketing & Advertising in 1994 and renamed JMC Marketing in 2009, we quickly became a market leader in the provision of innovative, free-of-charge, marketing publications for solicitors, estate agents and football clubs throughout the UK. During this period, we identified a need for freely available, commercially-funded, reusable carrier bags in golf clubs and leisure centres.

In 1997, as our product and service reputation grew, we added the Library Book Carrier to our portfolio and these can now be found in many libraries throughout the UK. Thereafter followed a period of rapid growth and as a result of which we formed the limited company, Direct Marketing Scotland Ltd in December 2000.

Whilst the free-of-charge marketing products remain a core part of our business, we have continued to expand our creative design studio, our telemarketing division and our marketing campaign consultancy services enabling us to offer our clients a one-stop shop for all of their marketing and advertising needs.

More recently, we have established links with a family business in India who manufacture and supply a range of high quality