Stuart McMillan

Trossachs Distillery in Callander, Scotland, overlooked by the majestic Ben Ledi, is the home of McQueen Gin, handcrafted with Passion, Honesty and Integrity. Founded in 2015 by Dale & Vicky McQueen, and from the beginning, were all about flavour, differentiation and community. The passion and pioneering attitude can be found in every bottle of McQueen Gin. We now manage a team of over 16 passionate individuals with a production capacity of 5 million bottles per year. Rebellious? Maverick? We call it McQueen. We are The Original Spirits Mavericks, ripping up the rule book and blazing our own path in the spirits industry.

Distillery Manager at Scotland’s fastest growing craft gin brand. Overseeing all aspects of production and manufacture of some of the most adventurous Scottish spirits on the market.

Set in the heart of the Caringorm National Park, Kinrara distillery is one of Scotlands smallest commercial distilleries. Founded in 2017, the distillery will be releasing its first gins to the market in February 2018. The Kinrara highland dry gin will be a mixture of foraged botanicals and water filtered through the Cairngorm mountains. We hope to launch a second gin later in the Spring which will champion some of the finest young Scottish artists on the bottles.

Managing the day to day business of creating award winning gins and laying down priceless whisky. We are proud to be winners of "Scotlands Craft Spirit of the Year" 2015 for our Oaked Highland Gin. We also have the pleasure of having "Scotland's Young Distillery of the Year", 22 year old, Zak Shenfield, overseeing, designing and distilling all our spirits. Most recently we were commended by Whisky Magazine as an "Icons of Whisky" and were short listed in six other categories. Strathearn Distillery, near the village of Methven in Perthshire, is "probably Scotland’s smallest " whisky and gin distillery. The distillery produces hand-crafted, artisan single cask, single malt whisky by using traditional methods and ideas. Our beautiful small copper stills are used to create individual batches of spirit matured in small casks. In addition to whisky, the distillery also produces a range of premium gins which are now widely marketed across Scotland and beyond.

I am a quality driven individual who strives to design and deliver the best possible learning experiences. I place a strong emphasis on experiential learning, ensuring sessions are interactive and dynamic so as to keep clients engaged and focused on task. I pride myself on developing material that will allow me to draw learnings for the group and client on the day to help them grow and progress on their journey of development. I am at ease delivering L&D to both boardroom level and junior level alike, and I adopt a flexible delivery style to ensure engagement. This ensures maximum learning effectiveness in the training room and practical application back in the workplace. I believe that my history in the service industry has stood me in good stead when it comes to recognising service excellence for both customers and stakeholders. • Client liason and development of bespoke training and team development programmes • Ensuring the BlueSky Team achieve and surpass client expectations at all levels • Fully qualified Insights Practitioner and Facilitator, able to develop and deliver training & development to all levels • Design and delivery of experiential learning materials • Assess training requirements and goals, then deliver dynamic bespoke L&D solutions to meet these aims and objectives • Work with all client levels from Global Boardrooms to more junior staff • Oversee all staff employment, induction and culture, training and development • Work with Blue Chip companies such as Marriott, BP, AMEC, Britannia, Sub Sea 7, Talisman, Strathclyde University • Five years of delivering Team Effectiveness training to over 600 Strathclyde University Masters students, a mixture of multicultural and multilingual groups over a bespoke two day programme

As a consultant for Home House, I was employed to launch their first club outside London. To this end I was to oversee and take full control of refurbishing the recently purchased Hallion Club in Edinburgh, employ a management team and relaunch it as a Home House within 6 months.

As a hospitality consultant I oversaw all aspects of the opening of the Food & Beverage franchise within the Perth Concert Hall. I was responsible for every facet of pre-opening and then initial operation, including food concept design, purchasing, all recruitment, systems set up, operational standards and financial reporting.