Manager marks 30 years
MOWI Scotland seawater manager David MacGillivray marked 30 years with the company last month. He was presented with his long service award by Mowi farming operations director Gideon Pringle, at the company’s Fort William headquarters.
MacGillivray (nicknamed ‘Bodger’ by his colleagues) started working for Mowi, in April 1989 as a farm assistant at Kingairloch. He was promoted to assistant farm manager at Gorsten in1995, and became manager of the farm five years later.
His next move was to Uist, in 2005, where he was appointed area manager, and in 2007 he was made area manager for South, before his current appointment in 2016.
Last year, MacGillivray won the innovation award at the Scottish Marine Aquaculture Awards for developing environets for circular pens,.