Leadership
As we near the end of our five-year period, we need to shift our focus to planning for the future beyond 2026 whilst ensuring we deliver on the objectives.
Due to the shift from strategy to delivery, we carried out a review of the Scottish AI Alliance’s governance structure in mid 2024 and decided to stand down our Leadership Group and form a new Governance Group focused on future planning whilst at the same time providing strategic oversight on delivery.
We would like to thank our Leadership Group for all their work and support over the past three years.
Going forward, we are delighted to introduce our new, smaller Governance Group, who will focus on future planning whilst at the same time providing strategic oversight on delivery.
Minister
Richard Lochhead
Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade
Richard Lochhead was appointed Minister for Small Business, Innovation and Trade in March 2023.
Chair and Senior Responsible Officers
Tom is the Chief Data Officer at the Scottish Government, with extensive hands-on experience working across Data Science, Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Software Development and Data Engineering.
As Interim CEO of The Data Lab, Heather is responsible for developing strategy, delivery and culture across the wider organisation, accountable to funding partners and The Data Lab Governance Board.
Catriona joined EY UK & Ireland to lead Client technology & Innovation from her previous role running our wavespace innovation centres across EMEIA, as well as working with HSBC, Nokia, Unilever, and BP.
Governance Group
An advocate for responsible AI, Angus played a pivotal role in launching the award-winning MoneySavingExpert Chatbot, an anthropomorphic AI system designed for fraud prevention in banking, as well as AI-powered financial advice for an asset manager. He brings a pragmatic, people-centric approach to helping organisations of all sizes seize opportunities for innovation.
Yunhyong Kim is a Lecturer in the School of Humanities, University of Glasgow. She works across multiple topics related to information management and analysis, with a particular focus on areas that bring together artificial intelligence, digital curation, and forensics as part of an information ecosystem, especially within cultural heritage.
Linzi is a Partner at DLA Piper who provides strategic and commercial advice on technology, AI and data protection issues. She has assisted in several significant outsourcing and complex technology transactions; particularly high-value business-critical transformation projects.
Verena Rieser is a Senior Staff Research Scientist at Google DeepMind, leading interdisciplinary research on integrating diverse viewpoints into Large Language Models to improve their safety and alignment.
Michael Boniface is Chief Operating Officer at Kythera.AI, a Scottish based Technology company delivering AI products and services into the computer games, creative and simulation industries.