Ewan Macpherson

Ewan Macpherson, Ideality founding director and idea generation facilitator

Ewan Macpherson specialises in helping high-technology businesses and engineering companies with innovation, investor readiness, technology commercialisation, and public and private sector funding. He also carries out technical and financial due diligence on behalf of the Scottish Seed Fund.

Ewan has 20 years’ experience working in economic development roles with Scottish Development Agency, Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Scottish Enterprise and European Commission.

This includes innovation incubators, facilitation/training, advising on commercialisation activities, supporting companies in securing funding and providing after-care mentoring and support.

Ewan is also a highly experienced lead facilitator in the application of ACTOR^®, Systematic Inventive Thinking (SIT) and other established idea generation tools.

In addition, Ewan has also run both consultancy and manufacturing businesses in marine and land renewal. Overseas, he has worked for the World Health Organisation on a public health project for a Mediterranean island state, on new town development in the Hong Kong New Territories, and provided economic development assistance in a post-Soviet Russian state.

Ewan is a chartered engineer and chartered marketer, and a double graduate of Strathclyde University. He also has accounting and finance qualifications, and is an ILM Premier Adviser.  He founded Ideality to pursue his passion for driving successful innovation, taking the theme much more broadly than technology, into products, processes, services and business models.

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