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Getting involved with GlobalScot

Managed by Scottish Enterprise and endorsed by Scotland's First Minister, GlobalScot was launched in 2001 to provide new and expanding Scottish businesses with a stepping stone into export markets throughout the world, and to assist Scottish companies with all aspects of growing their business.

Scotland has always punched above its weight in the global business arena, producing talented and ambitious individuals who have risen to influential positions in major companies across the globe.

The GlobalScot network seeks to harness the skills, knowledge and expertise of these successful business men and women. The result is a professional network where valuable commercial acumen can be accessed by up-and-coming Scottish companies for the future benefit of Scotland's economy.

GlobalScots can give Scottish firms precisely the kind of hands-on, targeted advice they need to succeed in specific business environments at home and overseas.

 

We currently have over 600 GlobalScots in the following regions across the world:

• Europe, Middle East and Africa 221
• USA 212
• Asia 104
• Scotland 80

These members are represented across the following sectors:

• Creative Industries and Technology 81
• Life Sciences 99
• Business Services 87
• Financial Services 78
• Energy 67
• Food and Drink 22
• Government 10
• Tourism 12

The balance of our existing membership are not currently aligned to the above sectors but have a range of experience across various business disciplines.

Membership of GlobalScot is by invitation only, personal and non-transferable.

In order to maintain the quality and integrity of the network, we are careful to ensure that all our members are actively engaged and that the composition of the membership accurately reflects the needs of our customers as well as the priorities of Scottish Enterprise.

With over 600 GlobalScot members currently we are not looking to grow the membership significantly however we are currently looking to identify prospective GlobalScot members in the following sectors and regions:

• Life Sciences: Stem Cells and Translational Medicine sub-sectors only. We will not be actively recruiting additional Life Science members on the West Coast of the USA.
• Creative Industries and Technology: Informatics & Computing; Clean-Tech; Security & Defence and Sustainable Transport subsectors. We will not be recruiting additional DMET members on the West Coast of the USA.
• Food & Drink: All sub-sectors require new members with particular focus on Retail, Distribution, Wholesale; Food Service and Innovation; Supply Chain and Health Enhancing Foods
• Energy: Priority sub-sectors globally are Renewable Energy; Offshore Wind; Marine Energy and Bio Energy. We are also seeking new members in South America, USA and Asia Pacific (specifically renewables) plus the Middle East, Africa, Norway, Russia, Kazakhstan, Turkmenistan, Louisiana (specifically oil and gas.)
• Financial Services: Sub-sector priorities are Outsourcing and Shared Service Centres (particularly the Americas.)
• Chemical Sciences: All sub-sectors globally to support this important growth sector in Scotland.
• Aerospace and Defence: All sub-sectors globally.
• Tourism: All sub-sectors globally.
• We are not actively recruiting any new members within Scotland.