Our team

Ian is a former service user and Birthlink director of over 10 years and a trusted provider of people solutions across the Voluntary, Public and Private Sectors in Scotland. His career began in employee benefits before progressing into executive recruitment and career management and ultimately on to corporate sustainability and business transformation.  Ian has a passion for cross -sector collaboration and has worked at the interface of all three to help build capacity through business skills and resource transfer. 

Joined September 2020. Linda is a senior manager whose work in education spans 30 years and includes university, college and community settings. Her commitment stems from the belief that education changes lives. Skilled in strategic development, policy, planning, collaborations and mergers. She also has lived experience of adoption.

Alasdair is a Teaching Fellow at the Strathclyde Institute for Genealogical Studies (SIGS) at the University of Strathclyde and has a passion for helping individuals reconnect with their family and explore their ancestry. He specialises in the use of DNA for genealogical research (including adoption and unknown parentage). He is an administrator of the Scottish DNA Project and a member of the Register of Qualified Genealogists (RQG).

Joined Birthlink in 2012 and is the Director responsible for Finance.