brief biography

Murray is Managing Director of Strachan & Partners, a specialist business advisory consultancy, and part-time Chief Executive of Albyn Ventures, a business investment group. He also holds a number of non-executive chairman & director positions in a range of companies throughout the UK, many of which he is a shareholder in.

Until mid 2007, Murray was a Director and Chief of Staff of Petrofac Operations Services, a major division of Petrofac PLC. Murray was previously the Chief Executive of the global Petrofac Training Group, the leading training & consultancy business to the international oil and gas industry. Petrofac Training was created in February 2004, when Petrofac acquired the RGIT Montrose Group, which had been acquired in April 2003 by a MBO Team led by Murray. Prior to RGIT Montrose, Murray worked for divisions of Liberty Mutual and the Maersk Group in a number of senior management or strategic change management roles.

Murray is also a non executive director of &/or holds board positions with a number of charitable causes &/or organisations in Scotland and was a top 3 finalist for the Scottish Director of Year in 2004. RGIT Montrose, under his leadership, was the winner of the Ernst & Young Small / Mid-size Company Deal of the Year 2003/4 and was runner up for the overall Deal of the Year the same year. In 2007, Murray was appointed Honorary Professor of the Robert Gordon University and joined the Board of the Entrepreneurial Exchange in Scotland, of which he is now Vice Chairman.

Murray is a determined, committed and forward thinking leader with a clear focus on the delivery of strategic business objectives and business performance. He has a strong and diverse business acumen, with a proven record in the delivery of results and the management of key relationships. He has had a solid career, working in or with, a number of large, medium or small service, contracting and consultancy companies, across a number of industry sectors, both in the UK and internationally.