Inverness Harbour appoints Nessie enthusiast to board
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The man who keeps the official register of Loch Ness Monster sightings is a new trustee at Inverness Harbour.
Gary I Campbell, who is also a director at the University of the Highlands and Islands, has been appointed to the harbour trust board to serve an initial three-year term.
Mr Campbell, who is a qualified chartered accountant, has lived in Inverness for more than 25 years and prior to joining the university in 2012, held various senior positions in the private sector. During that time, he was also a visiting lecturer at the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland.
He has enjoyed management, sales and finance roles in a number of national and international accountancy and financial services organisations and currently sits on a number of boards of local bodies.
Serving trustee Russell Thomson has also been reappointed for a third term with effect from February 1.
He brings with him experience of 10 years’ service as a deck officer in the Merchant Navy before moving ashore to Skye in 1989 to take up the position of port manager with Caledonian MacBrayne on the Kyle-Kyleakin service. On closure of the ferry route, he became Skye Bridge manager and then moved to Inverness in 2004 as waterway manager for the Caledonian Canal.
He now serves as head of customer operations for Scottish Canals.
Brian Sherret has retired from the board following six years as a trustee.
Harbour trust chairman Angus Mackenzie was delighted with the appointments following a rigorous and extensive recruitment campaign.
“We received a number of applications of the highest calibre and it was a difficult decision,” he said. “Both individuals are highly respected throughout the Highlands and have considerable expertise in differing fields which will only be to the benefit of Inverness Harbour Trust.
“At the same time, I’d like to express thanks on behalf of the trust to Brian for his invaluable contribution.”
