Douglas Hawkins

• Jim McColl, OBE
• Keith Gibson
• Bill Thomson, OBE
• Alex Stewart
• Graham Lees
• Keith Mitchell
• Douglas Hawkins
• Shauna Powell
• Nairn Black
• Gavin McCallum
• George Roberts
• Scott Cunningham
• Chen Zhong
• Sharon Cheng
• Angela McCallum
• Stewart Macintosh
• Matthias Schabus
• Peter Dickson
• Gareth McColl

Career History

Dougie Hawkins joined Bank of Scotland (“BoS”) after leaving high school, and was employed in retail and small business banking over a period of 5 years. During this time he studied to become a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland (MCIBS) and was awarded the Bilsland Prize (the top merit award) for his efforts.

BoS subsequently sponsored Dougie to undertake his Chartered Accountancy training (ICAS) and over a three year period he was seconded across various departments in the bank including corporate banking, corporate recovery, international trade finance, shipping finance, tax and leveraged finance departments, whilst completing his professional exams. Toward the end of this three year period Dougie was offered a position in Structured Finance, BoS’ leveraged debt operation funding the UK private equity MBO market. He was promoted to Director and ultimately took on the role of establishing BoS’ Structured Finance presence in The Netherlands. Significant transactions undertaken by Dougie during his time at Structured Finance include Capital Safety Group, Youngs Bluecrest Seafood and Global Refund Group.

Dougie moved to the private equity side of the MBO industry in 2000 and joined Royal Bank Development Capital, Royal Bank of Scotland’s (“RBS”) mid-market private equity business. He was promoted to Managing Director in 2004, one of a team of 5 responsible for managing RBS’s £2bn private equity investment portfolio spread across 40 investee companies. Dougie’s experience covers the full spectrum of private equity activity from origination, execution portfolio management to exit. Significant investments that Dougie was responsible for during his time at RBS include Doncasters Group (£700m exit), GB Holiday Parks (£105m), Wyko Group (£139m), Darchem Holdings (£67.5m) and FTC (£50m). Dougie also sat on RBS’ Corporate Markets Credit Committee, Corporate Markets Equity Investment Committee, the Equity Finance Cases Committee and the Equity Finance Monitoring Committee.

In 2007 Dougie left RBS and started his own corporate finance consultancy, providing a range of corporate advisory services (acquisitions, joint ventures, refinancing and cash management) predominantly to corporates within his network of relationships.

Role at Clyde Blowers

Dougie joined CBC in 2009 and is currently responsible for managing CBC’s investments in David Brown Gear Systems and David Brown Hydraulics. Dougie is an FSA Approved Person.

Qualifications

He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Scotland (Gold Medallist) and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Bankers in Scotland.