Stewart Milne
Stewart Milne | |
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| Born | 23 July 1950 (age 74) |
| Known for | Chairman of Aberdeen F.C. |
Stewart Milne CBE, DBA, DTech (born 23 July 1950)[1] is a Scottish businessman and football club chairman, from Alford, Aberdeenshire.
Milne founded the Aberdeen-based Stewart Milne Construction Group, a housebuilding contractor, in 1975. He started off his business renovating bathrooms. As its chairman and chief executive, he earned the 2005 Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year award. In 2008, he received his Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the house building industry in Scotland.[2]
Milne is a major shareholder in Aberdeen F.C., and joined the club's board of directors in 1994 to replace Dick Donald, subsequently becoming chairman in 1998. In November 2019, shortly after opening a new training facility on the western outskirts of the city, he announced that he would be stepping down as chairman.[3]
He has an honorary doctorate in business administration from Robert Gordon University (December 2000),[4] and an honorary doctorate of technology from Edinburgh Napier University (November 2007),[citation needed] and an honorary doctorate from Heriot-Watt University, in recognition of his outstanding entrepreneurial contribution to the house building, construction and property development industry and to the Scottish economy, also for services to higher education in Scotland[citation needed].
References
- ^ http://www.entrepreneurial-exchange.co.uk/events/evening/2009/evening-stewart-milne-cbe/biogs/
- ^ "Award for one of Aberdeen College's most famous former students | Aberdeen City News | STV Local". local.stv.tv. 2011. Archived from the original on 11 July 2012. Retrieved 3 June 2011.
- ^ Aberdeen chairman Stewart Milne to step down as club may look to stay at Pittodrie, The Scotsman, 22 November 2019
- ^ "Graduation December 2000" (PDF). rgu.ac.uk. 2001. Retrieved 12 July 2012.