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Scottish
Quality Wild Venison
Assured.
Naturally
SQWV
Board member profiles
Stephen
Gibbs:
Stephen
has been closely involved in deer matters for the
last 20 years. He
was a member of the
Deer Commission between 1993 and 2000, Chairman of the Association of
Deer
Management Groups from 1994 to 2005 and currently chairs the Venison
Working
Group and SQWV. He
lives at Dougarie on
the Isle of Arran and manages his own deer forest.
Leo
Barclay:
Leo
worked on a farm in Dorset
and near Alford in Aberdeenshire before moving to Innerhadden in 1982. Here he kept hill sheep
and hill cows and
started Rannoch Smokery in 1985. Rannoch
Smokery is a dedicated meat and game smoker producing smoked meats from
the
hills surrounding Kinloch Rannoch in Scotland. He is currently secretary
of SQWV.
Alex
Hogg:
Alex
Hogg began his keepering career on Kelburn Estate in
Ayrshire where his father worked as a shepherd, and has spent the last
20 years
on Portmore Estate near Peebles, a mixed estate of policies, fringe
hill and
hill land which ranges to around 2000ft. He rears pheasants,
manages a
small grouse moor and herds of roe and red deer. His
son Kyle works alongside him, giving him
time to carry out his duties as chairman of the Scottish Gamekeepers
Association, a position he has held for the past eight years.
Christian
Nissen:
Christian
founded Highland Game Ltd in 1997 and the
company’s philosophy is to provide prime quality from ‘hill to table’. The company has invested
in educational and
marketing programmes to promote venison.
Highland Game was the first Scottish venison
processor to achieve SQWV
accreditation and is currently the only British Retail Consortium
approved
plant in Scotland.
Andy
Leitch:
Andy
has worked in the forest
industry in Scotland
since 1985 and he is currently working as Policy Advisor with the
Business
Development team in Forestry Commission Scotland. Previous roles
include Forest
Management Officer with responsibilities for deer management and
associated
venison contracts in the national forest estate, member of Executive
Committee
of Association of Deer Management Groups and board
member of WDM
Qualifications.
Mike Luti:
Mike
is a retired restaurateur
and smallholder. He
was a stalker for 30
years on Monachyle Mhor and Monachyle Beg estates.
He is also the vice chair of Balquhidder DMG,
a directly elected Board member for Callander on the Loch Lomond and
the
Trossachs National Park, and has spent 20 years as depute leader of
Killin
Mountain Rescue Team.
Iain
Wotherspoon:
Iain
Wotherspoon owns and runs Glenlyon Estate in
Perthshire and also manages the stalking enterprise at Glen Affric
Estate on
behalf of Highland Deer Management.
He
is Chairman and Chief Executive of Edinburgh based Kilmartin Property
Group,
Chairman of the Strathtay Deer Management Group, owner of the
Fortingall Hotel
and Chairman of Caledon Green, a renewable development and consultancy
company
operating in the hydro and biomass sectors.
Richard
Cooke:
Richard
is Resident
Factor for Dalhousie Estates, Brechin and thus involved in the venison
production
from an annual cull of approximately 700 animals from the Quality
Assured
Larder at Invermark. He
was Secretary of
the Association of the Deer Management Groups from its formation in
1992 until
February 2008 and, in that capacity, was closely involved in all
venison
related matters on behalf of the producers represented by the
organisation.
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