Our Team
Stephen Robertson (Director)
Qualified in law and then as a Chartered Accountant in 1992 with Deloitte & Touche in Glasgow. Stephen has worked in a variety of Corporate Finance roles including banking, business angel investment and the plc sector. He spent four years as Regional Manager of the Scottish office of the London Stock Exchange plc before joining DSL stockbrokers to set up ScotX. He founded Metis Partners in 2003 to focus on assisting companies with the discovery, assessment and exploitation of intellectual property. Stephen sits on the committee of the Scottish branch of Licensing Executives Society, which is for professionals interested in the licensing of intellectual property and technology transfer.
Bill Gemmell
An experienced business analyst, Bill has worked across a number of industries and market sectors in business development and change management roles since 1990. He most recently was operations director at Livingston-based IT services company Wisdom IT, where he gained specific expertise in the creation and development of innovative projects in the public sector. He also has extensive knowledge of the Higher and Further Education sectors in Scotland, having delivered strategic consultancy to the institutions on behalf of educational agencies. Bill holds a postgraduate degree in Operational Research from Strathclyde University and an MBA from the University of Edinburgh.
Nat Baldwin
Qualified in law after training at Pinsent Masons where he gained a broad commercial experience covering many sectors and working with a diverse range of clients from online retailers to high street banks. He specialised in Corporate, Banking, Commercial and Intellectual Property work. Nat showed a passion for innovation and doing things differently from an early age by inventing a competition-winning eco friendly “frog-bin” that can now be seen around the country and at 17 becoming a University Lecturer for a year at Matanzas University, Cuba, teaching to a range of students from professionals to school leavers.
Joanne Smith
Joanne graduated from the University of Glasgow in 2010 with a degree in Business and Economics, specialising in environmental economics and entrepreneurship. Before joining Metis Partners she was employed in the aviation sector of the oil and gas industry. In addition, she has worked on a number of marketing projects, namely; the Encouraging Dynamic Global Entrepreneurs (EDGE) programme, run by Scottish Enterprise; and the Small Business Consultancy Project, as part of her degree.
Dr Caroline Sincock (Associate)
Trained as a biological scientist, Caroline is an intellectual asset and Intellectual Property (IP) specialist with over 20 years' experience in innovation, commercialisation and product development. A former associate with patent and trade mark agents, Murgitroyd & Company, she has advised on international IP protection, litigation and management. Caroline was also instrumental in growing the Scottish branch of the Licensing Executives Society and was responsible for the development of the world's first Intellectual Assets Centre in 2002. She became the Scottish IA Centre's chief intellectual assets officer in 2003. Caroline started working for Metis Partners in 2007.
Darran Gardner (Associate)
A former business journalist with the Sunday Herald in Glasgow, Darran spent four years analysing and reporting on a wide variety of Scottish and UK businesses. At Metis he was involved in the development of a number of tools and methodologies focused on helping companies identify and assess their IA, and was instrumental in the creation of an innovative IA/ IP assessment and brokerage service for insolvency practitioners. He now specialises in the assessment of businesses from an intellectual assets and intellectual property perspective, as well as the delivery of commercial due diligence services. Darran has an MBA from the University of Strathclyde Graduate School of Business and is currently completing an LLM in IT and Telecommunications Law at the Glasgow Law School.