Alastair Balfour is an award-winning journalist as well as a highly successful businessman. After a 17-year newspaper career with The Scotsman, the Daily Record, and the Sunday Standard he co-founded the Scottish Business Insider group, which he sold in 1999. Alastair is a director of ScotlandIS and Business Forum Scotland and was one of the original founders of the Entrepreneurial Exchange in 1994. He has been a member of Strathclyde Business School’s advisory board and the Archangel Informal Investment group. His current major interest is Company Creators, which he co-founded in 2001. Using his journalistic flair to attract investors, Alastair specialises in strategy, market positioning, business planning and equity funding and has worked with more than 50 client companies to date.

Mark O’Neill worked with Glasgow’s museums for over 25 years and in that time he played a key role in developing Glasgow’s cultural sector. His major projects include setting up the Open Museum, the St.Mungo Museum of Religious Life and Art, the redisplay of the People’s Palace and the restoration and redisplay of Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, now the most visited museum in Britain outside London. In 2005 he was appointed Head of Arts and Museums for Glasgow City Council. He took up his current post of Director of Policy, Research and Development at Glasgow Life in 2009, where his remit also includes libraries and sport.

Doug Paine is a founding member of the Glasgow-based sound system Mungo’s Hi Fi, a mobile dance club in the Jamaican sound system tradition, which he set up with Tom Tattersall in 2000. Since then, he has worked in collaboration with other artists and producers as well as performing live at clubs, gigs and festivals in the UK and around Europe. The sound system itself has enjoyed support from BBC Radio 1 and other radio stations, bringing publicity for Doug and Tom and their independent record label, Scotch Bonnet, which was founded in 2005.

Jenni Steele is Head of Partnership Communications at VisitScotland. She has over 15 years' experience in tourism and public relations, event planning and corporate communications. Jenni is also Film Tourism Project Manager for VisitScotland and has led significant tourism related campaigns with studios including Sony Pictures International, Universal Pictures, Dreamworks and recently, Disney Pixar on the promotion of the movie Brave. She is also a Board Director of Fife Cultural Trust and has a keen interest in developing opportunities around cultural tourism.

Michael Studied History of Art and Architecture at the University of East Anglia (Norwich). He went on to take a PhD at Westfield College, London writing on illuminated manuscripts made for the court of Edward III. After working for the British Academy on the Corpus Vitrearum Medii Aevi recording project, he became a lecturer at the University of St Andrews before joining Christie's Education, where he is now Academic Director. He is an Honorary Professorial Fellow of the University of Glasgow School of Culture and Creative Arts and Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries. His publications include studies of the Stained Glass of Canterbury Cathedral, English Medieval Panel Painting, Illuminated Manuscripts and Medieval Liturgical Embroidery.

Dr Tony Pollard is the Director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology and a Senior Lecturer in History at the University of Glasgow. He has carried out battlefield and conflict related archaeological projects in the UK, mainland Europe, Africa and South America. Tony has written numerous papers and articles on archaeology and military history and in 2000 he co-organised the first ever international conference on Battlefield Archaeology. He then went on to make two series of Two Men in a Trench for the BBC, which introduced the public to the archaeology of British battlefields. Along with Neil Oliver he wrote two books to accompany the programmes. In 2009 Penguin published his first novel, The Secrets of the Lazarus Club.