Jacqui Low, Executive Chairman
Jacqui Low is Executive Chairman of Edinburgh-based specialist communications company Indigo which she founded twenty-one years ago.
Jacqui has over 35 years’ experience in key roles across business, communications, media and politics, including her role as Scotland’s first ever female Special Advisor. Her speciality is strategic and tactical comms as well as crisis management.
As an experienced NED and Trustee, in recent years, she has held a number of board appointments, including vice-chairman of NHS 24 (she was one of the founding Directors) and two terms on the Council of CBI Scotland, as well as on the Court of The Merchant Company of Edinburgh. Jacqui has also been a Trustee of Lloyds TSB Foundation (now Corra Foundation) and a Director of St Mary’s Music School.
In 2015, Jacqui was appointed as a Director at Partick Thistle Football Club, becoming one of three women directors in the Scottish Premiership at that time and the first female to hold a boardroom position in the club’s 142-year history. In 2018, she became Chairman of the Board, one of a handful of women in the UK to hold such a position.
Jacqui is currently a strategic advisor to Weatherbys Private Bank and she is also Chairman of one of Scotland’s oldest charities seescape (formerly Fife Society for the Blind), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a member of MENSA.
Peter Smyth, Director of Public Affairs
As Director of Public Affairs at Indigo, Peter leads on delivery of the company’s public affairs and advocacy practice, giving clients the support they need to position themselves most effectively to deal with the issues that play out across the political, regulatory, business, community and policy-influencing spectrum.
He has shaped and guided a wide range of high profile public affairs accounts for leading business groups, pharma companies and global technology providers, while his campaigns for third sector clients have secured UK-wide recognition including the PR Week Awards (Runner-up 2014), the Communiqué Awards (Finalist 2014) and the Public Affairs Awards (Winner 2017).
Peter joined Indigo in 2011 from a public affairs and policy role at the Federation of Master Builders, the UK’s largest building trade association and before that he worked at Newsdirect, delivering bespoke parliamentary monitoring and intelligence to clients interested all things Holyrood-related.
A graduate of the University of St Andrews and the London School of Economics, he is a former member of the national advisory committee for the Boys’ Brigade in Scotland and currently serves on the board of trustees for CHAS, Scotland’s national children’s hospice service.
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Elizabeth Lambley, Director
Elizabeth Lambley is a director with Indigo. A strategic PR thinker with a creative approach, she has orchestrated campaigns to raise funds, change perceptions, generate profile and support business expansion. Since joining Indigo over 18 years ago, she has consistently earned the respect of clients, many of whom have remained loyal, long-term accounts with the company.
Prior to working with Indigo, Lizzy has held senior posts in both London and in Scotland, in-house and within the consultancy environment.
