Ballathie Estates

Ballathie Estates Ltd gave £25,000 to the Labour Party in May 2001. The Director and major shareholder is John Robert Milligan. A month after the donation he was appointed as the Chairman of the Scottish New Deal Advisory Task Force.

John Milligan formed Strathclyde Process Engineering in 1973 and Atlantic Power and Gas in 1982, where he remained Chairman until last year. He is a non-executive Director of Petroleum Geo-Services (a company floated on the New York Stock Exchange) which merged with Atlantic Power in 1998. He is also a non-executive Director of Aberdeen Development Capital. He was previously Chairman of Aberdeen Enterprise Trust and Head Start Aberdeen. He is Chairman of the Board of Governors at Robert Gordon University, and a sponsor of an Industry/Education Partnership with Kincorth Academy.