Ian Ritchie – Non-Executive Chairman

Ian Ritchie serves as Chairman of Computer Application Services Ltd., Scapa Technologies Ltd. and Caspian Learning Ltd. He is the Chairman of Connect Scotland and is a non-executive Director of the Edinburgh International Film Festival. He is a trustee of the National Museums of Scotland, a member of the board of Our Dynamic Earth, and of Bletchley Park.

He is Chairman of Generation Science and a board member of the Edinburgh International Science Festival. Ritchie has also been active in venture capital as a director of Northern Venture Trust plc from 1997-2001 and as a member of the advisory board of Pentech Ventures from 2001.

Ritchie was awarded a CBE in the 2003 New Years Honours list for services to enterprise and education; he is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering; a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh; and a Fellow and a past-President of the British Computer Society (1998-99). He serves as a member of the Scottish Higher and Further Education Funding Council (SFC), and is an Honorary Professor at Heriot-Watt University.

He has a BSc Hons in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University (1973), and was awarded Honorary Doctorates by Heriot-Watt University in July 2000, the Robert Gordon University in July 2001, the University of Abertay Dundee in June 2002, and the University of Edinburgh in December 2003.