Board Members
The content below gives you a brief overview of the CPS Board. Our Board contains 15 members with a mix of those from Company Chemists’ Association (CCA) organisations and independent businesses. Each board member contributes unique expertise and plays a vital role in ensuring the success of Community Pharmacy Scotland's initiatives.
Martin Green - Chair
Martin Green, is the Chair of the Community Pharmacy Scotland Board, where he collaborates closely with fellow Board Members and the CPS Executive to help realise CPS’s vision, strategy and aim. He also acts as the Managing Director for M&D Green and using his vast knowledge and experience, he ensures the highest level of professional service and pharmaceutical care on a daily basis. He currently has 32 branches throughout Glasgow, Ayrshire, Renfrewshire, Lanarkshire, Inverclyde and Lothian, which gives him a unique skill set that enables him to continue to positively impact the community pharmacy profession. Graduate of Strathclyde University Glasgow
James Semple - Vice Chair
James Semple, is the Vice Chair of the Community Pharmacy Scotland Board , where he collaborates closely with fellow Board Members and the CPS Executive to help realise CPS’s vision, strategy and aim. James Semple is also director of a chain of pharmacies based in Gourock. He has previously served as President of the Scottish Pharmaceutical Federation, a member of the NPA Board, and as vice-chair of CPS from 2007 to 2015.
Eleanor Fairbairn
Eleanor graduated from Robert Gordon’s in Aberdeen and completed by Pre-Registration year with Savoury and Moore. She has worked in a number of management positions for a small independent multiple, the Co-op and has worked for Lloydspharmacy since 1999 and currently Rowlands. she has been an Area Manager in various locations including Manchester, Newcastle, Lothian and Borders, Glasgow and Lanarkshire and Pharmacy Affairs Manager for Celesio UK in Scotland since 2013.
She is a former member of Community Pharmacy Lothian, currently Secretary of Community Pharmacy Borders, Chair of the Company Chemists Association Scottish Management Group and have been on CPS Board since 2005.
John Connolly
John graduated from The Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen in 2000. He completed his pre-registration year with Safeway and went on to be a pharmacy manager with them. He then became the superintendent of an independent pharmacy in Aberdeen for 2 years before moving back to Glasgow and working as a locum.
Karen Gordon
Karen has been with Davidsons Chemists since 1999. She was Operations Manager from 2002 – 2009 and is currently Operations Director and Superintendent Pharmacist. She is also a member of Community Pharmacy Tayside, a Tayside Pharmacy Champion and a member of Tayside New Contract Board.
Catriona Sinclair
I am an independent contractor owning Spa Pharmacy in Strathpeffer in the Highlands.
After graduating in 1990 I worked for many years for Boots and Moss before deciding to move into the independent sector and I have never looked back. Living and working in the Highlands has offered me opportunities to work in a different environment where local community resources, such as a community pharmacy, are vitally important.
I have chaired the Community Pharmacy Highland committee for many years now and have been on the board at Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS) for over ten years during which time I am proud to have been a part of the many changes to the pharmacy contract within Scotland.
I am the chair of the Area Pharmaceutical Committee (APC) and Area Clinical Forum (ACF) in NHS Highland and this gives me additional insight into the bigger picture and challenges within the NHS.
I am an Independent Prescriber (IP) and Designated Prescribing Practitioner (DPP) and I am passionate about the need to support the future of pharmacy and pharmacists to be the best we can be in the community. The challenges of operating in a rural environment are also vitally important to me and I feel privileged to be able to speak up for contractors who offer vital rural services to patients.
Campbell Shimmins
Campbell graduated from Strathclyde University and has been an independent proprietor pharmacist since 1993. He has been a Director of Albapharm and subsequently Inphaserve since 2003. He was also a member of Forth Valley Area Pharmaceutical Committee from 1995 until 2007, and a member of Forth Valley Pharmacy Contractors Committee (CPS Forth Valley) since 1995. IHe has also been elected to Fife Contractors' Committee (CPS Fife).
Since 1999 he has been the Chairman of Forth Valley Pharmacy Contractors Committee and been reappointed as Chairman for the session. He has also been a member of Community Pharmacy Scotland since 1999. He qualified as a supplementary prescriber in 2004, and the first community pharmacist prescriber and since 2006 an Independent prescriber.
He was a member of the National Pharmacy Forum and has been an active member of the Community Pharmacy Scotland Board from 2004, standing again in 2016 as his role within his own businesses allowed a commitment that the potential election to the CPS Board required.
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Mark Feeney
I am the owner and operator of Bannerman's Pharmacy Group. We are a small chain of 5 independent pharmacies based in NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde.
Previously, I have worked in community pharmacy as an employee and as part of the Executive Team for Community Pharmacy Scotland (CPS). I was Head of Policy and Development at CPS before joining Bannerman's as a Director in 2018. I purchased the business outright in April 2020.
I completed my independent prescriber training in 2020 and still spend most of my working week in patient facing roles.
My interests are in sustainable policy and service development to help community pharmacies stay at the heart of primary care services. Working with the CPS Board and team I want to ensure community pharmacy receives the funding and recognition it deserves from the Scottish Government.
David Massie
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Catriona Wright
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Gillian Hunter
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Fraser Frame
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Ifti Khan
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