Hub West Scotland appoints Jo Armstrong as its new independent chair
Hub West Scotland, the jointventure infrastructure body, has appointed Jo Armstrong as its new independent chair.
She will take up the position on 1 August, with Bill Matthews stepping down at the end of his second term, having led the board since the formation of the Hub in 2012.
Under Matthews’ leadership, the organisation secured and successfully managed a £400 million programme of investment in community facilities.
Hub West Scotland is a joint venture owned by the public and private sectors. It works with 15 public bodies in the Greater Glasgow and Clyde area, known as the West Territory.
Armstrong has worked across the public, private and third sectors and brings “extensive chairing, business economics and structured finance experience” to the organisation, it noted.
Following an early career in the energy sector, she worked in structured finance at Royal Bank of Scotland then became a senior civil servant with the Scottish Government, providing corporate finance and microeconomic advice to ministers in a number of policy areas, most notably in the delivery of the stock-transfer social housing policy.
Armstrong is chair of Ofgem’s electricity network innovation competition expert panel, an appointed member of the Water Industry Commission for Scotland and an independent non-executive director of the Wheatley Group. She holds two degrees in economics from the University of Strathclyde.
Matthews said: “I’m delighted to be handing the reins at Hub West to someone of Jo’s calibre – the Hub initiative has delivered some exceptional buildings in the West of Scotland and I’m proud to have been associated with such a strong team.”