Edit 515 Directors
Bill Armitage - Development Director (1970 - 2023)
Bill became Sole Operational Director (2022 - 2023)
Qualifications
HNC Mechanical Engineering (Distinction in all subjects)
BSc (1st) Mechanical Engineering - Strathclyde University
MSc Operational Research - Strathclyde University
CEng, MIMechE (Chartered Mechanical Engineer)
FOR (Fellow Operational Research)
Other Business Experiences:
Design Draughtsman, John Thompson Water Tube Boilers, Wolverhampton
Engineer, Heavy Engineering, Crane Building, Stewarts & Lloyds, Glasgow
Assistant to Works Director, Precision Engineering, Laser Rangefinder, Barr & Stroud, Glasgow
Lecturer in Operational Research and Quantitative Methods for MBA, Strathclyde Business School
Senior Lecturer (Course Tutor) 5 year Enhanced Engineering Degree, Strathclyde University
Visiting Professor for LNETI, (Lisbon, Portugal), Scottish Business School
Visiting Professor at RMIT (Melbourne, Australia), Magagement Games
Head of Group Planning and Operational Research, Royal Bank of Scotland
Associate Director Merrill Lynch Europe, London
Senior Partner - Omni-Solve Consulting (Financial Modelling), London
Areas of Expertise
Mathematical Modelling (Mortgages, Leasing, Lending and APRs, etc.)
Back Office Settlement Systems, Risk and Fraud assessment
EuroBanking Committee, representative for all Scottish Banks
Dan Davidson (Deceased) - was Company Secretary (1970 - 2022)
Dan acted as Operations Director (2011 - 2020)
Dan took on the additional roll of Finance Director (2020 - 2022)
Qualifications
BSc in Mechanical Engineering - Glasgow University
PhD in Operational Research - Strathclyde University
Other Business Experiences:
Lecturer Operational Research, Strathclyde University
Retail Banking, Head of Operational Research, Royal Bank of Scotland
Ray Taylor (Deceased) previously was Finance Director (1970 - 2020)
Ray decided to relinquish his role as Finance Director in 2020
Other Business Experiences:
U.K. Intelligence Services
Nuclear Engineering
Manpower Planning (Chairman)
Research Fellow (Strathclyde University)
Ray decided to fully retire as an active Director of Edit 515 Limited in 2015.
David J. Hutchings (Deceased) - was Chairman (1970 - 2017)
Qualifications
BA in Natural Sciences - Cambridge University
Other Business Experiences:
Paper Industry
Building Research Establishment
Furniture Manufacturing
Research Fellow (Shipbuilding)
Ashridge (Management College)
Bill Robertson (Deceased) was Operations Director (1972 - 2011)