A scheme to encourage Scotland’s next generation of business leaders and entrepreneurs has had fresh backing from Dundee-based firm brightsolid.
The online publishing and technology group is taking on a second Saltire Foundation fellow. The fellowship gives promising young business people a combination of academic learning and hands-on company experience.
Neil Campbell has been hired as brightsolid’s head of product and marketing for its online technology business. He follows Ian Webster, who was recruited last year.
Chief executive Chris van der Kuyl said, “The Saltire Foundation was set up to instil individuals with the business skills and entrepreneurial drive to transform Scottish companies into global businesses of scale all attributes critical to the future success of brightsolid.
“We are the only company in Scotland to have hired two recruits from the Saltire Fellowship, which is testament to the talent it harnesses.”
Foundation chief executive Sandy Kennedy said, “There is a real need to raise aspirations within Scottish businesses to deliver on a global stage. The fellowship programme is focused on giving its alumni the skills and ambition to do just this.”
Currrently digitising 40 million pages from the British Library’s newspaper collection, brightsolid is also hosting a special event for the foundation in Dundee today where one of the speakers will be Brechin-born Hugh Carnegy, executive editor of The Financial Times, who will discuss the future of the newspaper industry.