Jo Elliot is a merchant banker. He is now Senior Adviser with his firm, Quayle Munro, which he joined in 1983 and where he was Chief Executive for 5 years up to  2007. He built up the firm’s business particularly at the public/private sector interface, bringing private sector capital and management into public infrastructure and services, and acting either for the public authority or for the private sector counterparty. He was a Governor of Edinburgh College of Art for 13 years and is on the audit committee of Glasgow University. In late 2010 he was appointed as the first chair of South East Scotland hubco, the vehicle charged with delivery of new community buildings in Lothian and Borders on a public/private partnership basis. He is also a director of J W Galloway Ltd, which is one of the largest meat processors in Scotland; of an investment trust Edinburgh New Income Trust plc; and of various charitable and arts organisations.