Our Staff and Board

The River Spey Operational Team

Board Members

Board members are elected triennially, and the most recent election was last February, 2025. The legislation is specific over who may stand for election, requiring the elected members to be riparian proprietors or their mandatories. There are currently eleven elected Board members, who subsequently elect one of the members to be their Chairman. The current Board members are as follows:

• Peter Graham, Chairman of the Board and Mandatory for Rothes & Aikenway, Orton, Laggan Fishings and Wildland
• Angus Gordon Lennox, Castle Water and Mandatory for the Brae Water Fishings
• Edward Mountain MSP, Delfur Fishings
• Guy Macpherson-Grant, Ballindalloch Castle Estate
• David Greer, Mandatory for Seafield Estates
• Callum Robertson, Mandatory for Easter Elchies, Upper Arndilly, The Macallan and Kincardine
• Toby Metcalfe, Mandatory for Crown Estates Scotland
• George Wills, Proprietor Lower Pitchroy (formerly part of Knockando Estate)
• Chas Jamieson, Estate Manager Macallan and the associated fishery/beat, Edrington Group
• Christian Marr, Proprietor Phones and Knockando Water
• Mark Taylor, Mandatory for Carron Fishings

For declaration of board members interests see below:

The Board may also co-opt and invite others to attend its meetings with co-optees empowered with voting rights if required. Currently Peter Austin (Chairman, River Spey Anglers Association) is co-opted onto the Board.

Meanwhile, NatureScot (formerly Scottish Natural Heritage and represented by Anne Elliot) are invitees to the Board. The Clerk to the Board is traditionally a Solicitor or Chartered Accountant.

Members of the Ghillies Committee

The Ghillies are a fundamental and essential part of the River Spey. Although not employees of the Spey Fishery Board, the Board recognises the wealth of experience the ghillies bring and, as such, has a ghillies committee which reports back to the main Board of Directors on an occasional basis, and as time allows, especially during the fishing season. 

Since the recent February 2025 Spey Fishery Board elections, David Greer, one of our Board Members now chairs the ghillies committee, working closely with his colleague, Simon Crozier, Senior Ghillie, Castle Grant. The Board seeks to build on the good relationship it has through its new leadership. 

The current members of the Ghillies Committee are as follows:

• Simon Crozier, Senior Ghillie, Castle Grant
• Roddy Stronach, Head Ghillie, Tulchan
• Andrew Hall, Head Ghillie, Knockando, Lower Pitchroy
• Euan Reid, Head Ghillie, Arndilly
• David Buley, Castle Water, Gordon Castle
• David Greer, Board Member, Spey Fishery Board and Chairman of the Ghillies Committee
• Dr. Phil Williams
• Duncan Ferguson, Operations Manager, Spey Fishery Board
• Atticus Albright, Head Biologist, Spey Fishery Board