Cllr Frank Ross

Chair of EDI Group Ltd
Convener Economy Committee, Edinburgh City Council

Frank is Chair of EDI Group Ltd, Waterfront Edinburgh Limited, PARC Craigmillar and the Capital City Partnership. Frank is also a Director of Marketing Edinburgh. These companies assist in delivering economic growth and development across Edinburgh.

Frank has been a key figure in major Scottish businesses, working in the manufacturing/engineering sector of industry, mainly in Scotland, for a range of blue chip companies such as Racal, Chubb, Tomkins and Motherwell Bridge. An accountant to trade (FCMA) Frank worked his way up to operate at the highest managerial level in these organisations. 

More recently Frank has operated as a self employed Interim Manager focusing on Company turnarounds. This allowed Frank to become more politically active resulting in his election to the Council in 2012.

Clive Wilding

Director
Corona Real Estate Partnership

Clive comes from an Agricultural Land Management background. He joined UK construction group M.J. Gleeson Group Plc where he soon rose to become Managing Director of Gleeson Homes where the business grew from a £20m turnover company to one with over £220m – constructing over 1200 homes per annum around the country. Clive has forged strong links with local authorities and government and has held founder board positions on the Housing Forum and other Public/Private partnerships.

Over the last 15 years working as Property Director for Raven, and after doing Joint Ventures with Artisan finally joined them in 2014, focusing on focusing on mixed use, city-led residential schemes.

Ed Crockett

Head of Residential
Aberdeen Asset Management

Robin Blacklock

Project Director
Grosvenor

His primary responsibility at Grosvenor is the “Springside” development at Fountainbridge in Edinburgh, which is the regeneration of a former brewery site extending to over 9 acres. This has already provided over 200 private residential apartments and 600 bed student residences, and in June this year Grosvenor submitted a planning application for the final phase, based on delivery 400 units into the Build-to-Rent Private Rented Sector (PRS) market. He also has an interest in the role that placemaking and community involvement have in the development process and counts among his successes a mobile community allotment as a ‘meantime-use’ on the future development land at Springside.

In his spare time Robin is a trustee for The Sick Kids Friends Foundation and an eternally optimistic follower of both Heart of Midlothian FC and the Scottish national football team.

Malcolm Fraser

Director
Halliday Fraser Munro

Malcolm Fraser Architects’ work encompassed conservation and new build, often in historic contexts such as Edinburgh’s World Heritage Site, based on respect for the historic built context and the need to build within it in a rooted, confident, contemporary way. Their buildings were multiple award-winning, including eight RIBA awards and various Scottish Buildings of the Year Awards, and a Stirling Prize finalist, while the work demonstrated a consistent philosophical approach to humane, people-focussed space and the integrity of the built environment. The practice ceased trading in 2015, after 22 years of work, and Fraser is now working with architects Halliday Fraser Munro.

Fraser also led and authored the Scottish Government’s Town Centre Review “Community and Enterprise in Scotland’s Town Centres” in 2013, which looked to structural change to bring investment and footfall to all urban centres. The Government’s response included adopting the Review’s recommendation for a “Town Centre First” principle across all its activities.