Senior Leadership

Dr Stephen Milne is experienced in designing, managing, and implementing international research projects for commercial product ideas with a hardware and software focus in the medical technology sector.

Stephen obtained the European MEng in Electronic and Electrical Engineering at the University of Glasgow, and subsequently worked for Agilent Technologies and Freescale Semiconductor. Following this, he completed an Engineering Doctorate within the ESPRC funded Medical Devices Doctoral Training Centre at the University of Strathclyde. Subsequently, his doctoral research was awarded further international funding to test the sensor device he developed clinically and develop further clinical sensing markers. During his time as a Research Associate at the University of Strathclyde he collaborated with a range of businesses, from multinationals to university spin out companies, on a broad range of technological innovations.

Prior to joining CENSIS, Stephen attended Babson College, Boston, one of the top rated US business schools as part of Entrepreneurial Scotland’s Saltire Fellowship program. As part of the Fellowship he spent six months with the Digital Health and Care Innovation Centre on a number of commercial orientated projects.

Jacqueline Redmond has over 25 years’ international experience in senior positions with energy majors, with particular expertise in risk management, business development and innovation.

She graduated from the University of Strathclyde with a PhD in Energy Economics, Jacqueline joined ScottishPower in the mid-1990s. She led the company’s risk management team as it began to grow, adapt to de-regulation, and re-define the role of a utility, latterly becoming director of corporate strategy.

In 2006, Jacqueline was appointed by Royal Dutch Shell to develop its global LNG (liquefied natural gas) strategy. She moved on to become the vice-president of technology strategy at the energy major, working with a $1.3 billion research and development (R&D) budget to find, fund, and mature innovative new energy technologies.

Following three years as Shell’s head of commercial power and senior deal lead, Jacqueline was appointed as chief risk officer at the then-UK Government owned Green Investment Bank. She continued to develop sustainable energy projects across the world with Macquarie, following its acquisition of the Green Investment Bank, where, until April 2019, she helped identify disruptive emerging technologies in the energy sector.

Jacqueline is currently Executive Chair of CENSIS, Non-Executive Director and Risk Management and Conflicts Committee Chair of the Scottish National Investment Bank (SNIB), and is the former Executive Director of PNDC, Strathclyde University’s industrialisation centre focused on delivering whole energy solutions.

Non Executive Director, North

Scott was co-founder and Managing Director of Boston Networks and Executive Board Director of North (formerly Boston Group). North designs and delivers integrated technology solutions for complex and critical environments throughout the UK and internationally, with expertise in IoT, networking and connectivity, and safety and security.

Scott led the strategic expansion of the company into a national business through a series of targeted acquisitions. He rebranded the business and developed its offering. In 2023, Scott stepped down from the day-to-day running of the business to become a non-exec director at North and to pursue a wider non-executive career.

He has over 30 years’ experience in the technology, network infrastructure and ‘smart’ building services sectors. Scott specialises in business start up / scale up, business leadership, business management and operations, strategic p, strategic business development, brand, proposition and market development, business acquisition / M&A, strategic growth and private equity.