Our Board
Business expertise encompassing intellectual property, accounting, scale-up and more; the ScotBio board is made up of big thinkers who share ideas and see them through.
Andy Hunter
Chairman
Educated and residing in Jersey, Andy has experience gained over 30 years in managing, financing, operating and being chair of companies in several industry sectors including the renewables, food, animal by products, leather tanning, food, packaging printing, construction and property development in Europe, North America, Asia and Australasia. Andy is also a member of Swire Water Holdings Inc (US) and various Channel Island companies boards.
Jim Walker, CBE
Chief Executive Officer
Jim Walker CBE studied accountancy at the University of Edinburgh. After graduating he took over the family farm and remains in the family partnership rearing beef cattle and sheep on 4,000 acres in the Nith Valley. Jim served as Vice President and then President of NFU Scotland from 1998 to 2003, moving to Chairman of Quality Meat Scotland from April 2003 to October 2005. Jim also acted as a Consultant to Robert Wiseman Dairies between 2003 and 2008.
Jim joined Argent Energy Ltd as Vice Chairman in 2003, becoming Operations Director in 2005 and Managing Director in 2008. He was part of a consortium that bought Argent Energy in 2009. Argent was then acquired by John Swire & Sons in 2013; Jim remained as Managing Director until 2018, leading the development of Argent into a multi-site international division of the Swire Group. He remains a director of Drumbuie Renewables Limited, a cleaner energy and aggregates business.
As a former winner of the Ernst & Young UK Manufacturing and Processing Entrepreneur of the Year award - Jim joined ScotBio in 2022 to bring his manufacturing and management expertise and experience to ScotBio’s next phase of commercial development.
Paul Bready
Chief Financial Officer
Paul joined ScotBio as CFO in late 2021 as the company prepared for its latest and most successful funding round.
As a member of the executive team, Paul is now responsible for both the day-to-day financial management and the financial strategy of ScotBio.
Paul is a Chartered Accountant and holds an accountancy degree from the University of Glasgow (B’Acc) and a professional qualification (ICAS) gained whist employed as an auditor with Grant Thornton UK LLP.
Since 2016, Paul has supported several companies with financial planning, fund-raising, and CFO appointments.
Dr. Rocky Kindt
Chief Technology Officer
Whilst involved with ScotBio since 2013, when the company sponsored his PhD, Rocky officially joined ScotBio as Head of R&D in January 2016. Now as CTO he has overall responsibility for R&D on all aspects of the system, and has been instrumental in getting the technology ready for commercialisation. Rocky coordinates all R&D projects done in conjunction with universities. He has a PhD in molecular biology from the University of Edinburgh and an MSc in medical microbiology from the University of Manchester.
Mike Scott
Technical Director
Mike is both a graduate of University of Newcastle Upon Tyne with Chemical Process Engineering and the University of Manchester of Science and Technology (UMIST), with a Master of Science in Advanced Chemical Technology.
He is a Chartered Chemical & Energy Engineer and a fellow of the institute of Chemical Engineers, with 20 + years of experience relating to project management, design, construction, commissioning and operation of multi-million renewable fuel manufacturing units. I was a founder member and Director of Argent Energy UK Ltd and was instrumental in the development of biofuels business, solely from waste sources.
Mike also developed and headed up Group innovation covering new product development, process optimisation, biotechnology and synthesis green chemicals and have invented and patented various processes. He is a Director and shareholder of a new green hydrogen business.
Consistent products. Scalable production.
ScotBio Blue comes from the blue pigment in spirulina – phycocyanin. Unlike other producers we grow our spirulina inside in a clean and controlled production facility. Our patented method means we can guarantee a consistent supply of our all-natural products. This is more difficult to achieve with other methods that typically grow spirulina in open ponds, which are impacted by the elements.