Chairman - Sandy Orr, OBE
Sandy Orr is currently Co Founder, Owner and Executive Chairman of Mint Hotels (formerly City Inn Limited), a multiple award winning private hotel group trading and developing 2,800 rooms in the UK and Holland. Sandy is also Joint Chairman and Co Owner of Harviestoun Brewery which has won top British awards (Shiehallion and Bitter & Twisted and OlaDhu) and has been Chair of the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith from 2002.
Sandy was formerly Founder Director of Macdonald Hotels Limited, Chairman at Radio Forth, Director at Scottish Radio Holdings plc (and Chair of Audit Committee), Co-Chair and Owner of Caledonian Brewery (Deuchars), Founder of Heriot Hotels, Joint Managing Director of Caledonian Bank Limited. He has also developed and founded several new hotels and commercial buildings for national and international companies.
Sandy has had extensive involvement in the arts as Chairman of the Music Committee of the Scottish Arts Council, Chairman of Scottish Opera, Co Founder and Originator of the Festival Theatre Edinburgh, Director of the National Opera Studio and Chairman, Mariinsky Theatre Trust.
His professional career started as a Solicitor (MA LLB WS) where he practiced in the Scottish Highlands, then Edinburgh (Senior Partner), and as a Banker and Corporate Financier and Property Developer.
Sandy was awarded an OBE in 2007 for services to the Hospitality Industry.
