The core staff at SIE head up all our activities, educational content, business start-up support, managing the Interns & all marketing and communications.

Fiona Godsman, Interim Chief Executive

Fiona has 18 years of sales, marketing and business development experience in the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries and has held senior global positions in both small and large organisations, including Q-One Biotech, BioReliance and Invitrogen. She also has several years of research and laboratory experience, in both the NHS and in academia.

Fiona is an active participant in biotech/bioscience communities and has been involved in organising several international conferences. She is a founding member of Nexxus, the Scottish bioscience network, headed up the organisation during its recent expansion, and still serves as vice-chair on the steering committee. She is also served on the Bioindustry Association steering group in Scotland for eight years.
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Evelyn Hynan, Office & Events Manager

Office & Events Manager with SIE since January 2007, Evelyn has responsibility for managing the SIE office and the organising several of our events.  Evelyn has 17 years experience in office, events and facilities management in a variety of environments; from construction and engineering to the communication industry and community projects.
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Tom McGuire, Regional Business Advisor - Edinburgh and East

Tom has 15 years experience at board level as a director, general manager and executive coach. As a business coach with the leading global firm Shirlaws, and as an associate of the Scottish Institute for Business Leaders, he has worked with business owners and executives across a wide spectrum of industry sectors. He has a depth of commercial, supply chain and operations experience gained in the automotive and surface coatings industries.
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Amanda Dobbratz, Intern Coordinator

As Intern Coordinator, Amanda organises the Intern Programme and liaises with Interns and their institutions to assist them to best promote enterprise to their students. She recently completed with merit an MRes in Creative Practice at the Glasgow School of Art. At the GSA she served as SRC President for two years and helped to develop a number of enterprising initiatives including a now annual winter sale of student work.
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