The Chairman of the Aberdeen Football Club Community Trust (AFCCT) is joining the Pittodrie Club’s main board as a non-executive director.

Prior to his retirement in April 2013, Duncan Skinner spent 35 years in Oil and Gas contracting industry, holding many senior Finance posts in various iterations of the same company.

In 2005/6 he co-engineered a Management Buy Out of the KBR Production Services Business from Halliburton which was re-launched as PSN (Production Services Network) in May 2006. Duncan spent 5 years as Chief Financial Officer during which time the business doubled in size and then co-engineered the sale of PSN to local business, Wood Group in April 2011 where he became Chief Financial Officer of the expanded business Wood Group PSN – employing 28,000 people with an annual budget of $3.8bn.

Almost two years ago he retired to “try something new” and to concentrate on Social Enterprise and charity work, primarily concerned with local issues and particularly helping in fields of youth unemployment, disabled, and disadvantaged.

Commenting on the appointment, Chairman Stewart Milne, said: “Duncan brings with him a wealth of experience and contacts and will add further value both to the Board and to the Club. He will also act as a conduit between the Club and the Trust at a strategic level and, as an avid fan of the Dons who went to his first game in 1967, his passion to AFC is unquestionable.”

Duncan (56) added. “Since the establishment of the Charitable Trust earlier this year, I have been working extremely closely with the Chairman and other main board members and, such is the natural correlation between the activities of the AFCCT and the Club itself, hopefully I will be in a position to add real value to what the Club is currently doing in these challenging times.”

The AFC board comprises – Stewart Milne (Chairman), George Yule (Vice-Chairman), Duncan Fraser (CEO), Gordon Buchan, Colin Welsh, Ian Jack and Craig Brown.

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