Background: Kevin Brown

A GRADUATE of the Robert Gordon University's school of engineering, Kevin Brown also has an MSc in business and an MBA from Strathclyde University. He began his career as an engineer, first with ScottishPower and then with Scottish & Southern Energy as a manager in Skye and Lochalsh.

He traded in the rainy Higlands for three years in Bermuda, where he redesigned its university's engineering department and shored up the island's electricity system.

Brown returned to Britain as facilities manager at Heathrow airport before entering management. He was managing director of Aberdeen and Southampton airports before taking Edinburgh's top job last year.