Scotland Regional Board
Empowering high growth female founders across Scotland
The Edinburgh-based growth board is led by Carolyn Currie, current CEO of Women’s Enterprise Scotland. Women’s Enterprise Scotland is a research-led organisation with the purpose of economically empowering women-owned and women-led businesses. Carolyn has guided the development of global-leading standards for gender-equality in business advisor training and digital platform content, enabling more women to realise their business aspirations.
Joining Carolyn as co-chair is Catherine McWilliam, Nations Director at IoD Scotland. Joining the IoD Scotland team in 2021, Catherine has extensive experience in stakeholder engagement and relationship building across the third, private and public sector. Catherine has also recently been named as one of Management Today’s “35 Women under 35” for 2024.
“We have brought together regional and private sector experienced leaders alongside dynamic founders to form impactful boards, championing and super charging latent, high growth women led businesses in the regions. All with a common goal to grow the number of female-founded high-growth enterprises, and increase the percentage of capital invested into Female Founders in the region”
Jordan Dargue and Helen Oldham
Co-Founders, Lifted Ventures
