Kevin has a 45 year seafaring/management career, including 5 years as a fisherman, 26 years as a seagoing marine scientist, and 18 years as harbourmaster. He has extensive experience on charitable trusts including being founder member of the Ullapool Community Trust, and formerly chair of Lochbroom Woodfuels, West Highland College board member, and Calmac Community board member.

As fulltime CEO/Harbourmaster of Ullapool Harbour, he has fundraised and delivered circa £40M worth of harbour infrastructure and local community projects.

He is immersed in local education, conducting mock interviews, offering work experience opportunities and instrumental in setting up sail training programmes with 250 local youths undertaking fully sponsored sail training voyages globally. He is passionate to assist in preserving our rich maritime history with the creation of a new/old herring lugger for future generations.

Joseph Peach is currently Director of Policy and Public Affairs with Culture Counts - Scotland's network of arts, creative industries and heritage organisations. Prior to this he's filled a variety of policy, advocacy and communications roles with organisations including NorthWest 2045, abrdn Financial Fairness Trust, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland and Scottish Parliament. This work accompanies a career in traditional music, as a performer, composer, educator and artist manager.

Adrian has over 25 years' experience as a lawyer, having qualified in both Scotland and England and Wales. He has extensive management, personnel and governance experience having worked in various Legal, Compliance and Risk areas in the Financial Services industry. On qualifying in 1997, he was initially a corporate lawyer working in Corporate Finance and Mergers & Acquisitions in London and Edinburgh before moving in-house in 2003 with First State Investments, a fund management company (now First Sentier Investments).

In 2008 he was made Head of Legal and a member of the management board of First State Investments before moving to become a senior manager and Head of Regulatory at Kames Capital (now Aegon Asset Management) in 2014. In 2019, for personal reasons, he set up a private consultancy called FMS Positive Limited, initially aimed at giving legal and compliance advice, but more recently aimed at coaching young lawyers through the challenging environment of the legal profession. Adrian has a Level 1 ICF coaching qualification alongside his legal qualifications. Adrian has also sailed all his life, has his Day Skipper qualification and has sailed extensively around Britain and in the Mediterranean.

As an artist and arts facilitator who has returned to her home port of Ullapool, Charlotte works for the community arts charity An Talla Solais as Events and Volunteer Coordinator. Working with community and school groups, through teaching and inspiring initiatives she creates projects and assists development of the Events programme.  This included delivery of ART WEEK 2024 the Arts Festival.

Charlotte was a key committee member for the inaugural Lugger Fest 2024, the Ullapool traditional Sail Festival and brought boats, people and love of traditional sail to the newly developed, historic harbour. As the daughter of a fisherman, she is keen to be on the water herself and has sailed and cruised extensively;  72 degrees North, the west coast of Africa, the  Caribbean, as well as the many inaccessible bays and lochs of the west coast of Scotland.

With 30 years experience in the Energy Sector, including project management for multi-billion pound infrastructure and offshore projects, Greg brings project management and governance experience to the Trust. He is skilled in decision analysis, risk and uncertainty management, project management, regulatory engagement and stakeholder management, having worked projects across many international settings. He is passionate about youth development and sail training.

Ferga brings a wealth of experience in project management, grant funding, and leadership, with a proven track record of driving positive change in the community. She has a passion for supporting young people to develop their interpersonal skills and increase their aspirations for life, demonstrated as Team Leader at Fairbridge Edinburgh, Project Worker at Action for Children’s Intensive Support and Monitoring Service and Operations Manager at Calman Trust.In 2012 Ferga founded the community based Velocity Café and Bicycle Workshop in Inverness, promoting health, wellbeing and sustainability.

As Projects Coordinator for 12 years, she successfully led a range of projects to foster community engagement and social impact, and was instrumental in generating annual grant funding ranging from £280k to £450k.Her career also includes 2 years as Bosun’s mate on STS Lord Nelson providing sail training to able bodied and disabled trainees, plus time as trainee mate on the Spirit of Fairbridge sailing with young people with experience of a range of adverse circumstances including poor mental health, criminal justice involvement, drug addiction and homelessness.