Janyce Holmes

Janyce is a native of Edinburgh, having been born here and returning to attend university.

After graduating, she moved to London. Her core career was spent with United Distillers/Diageo, within the global marketing function. Initially employed as the Central Marketing Accountant, Janyce’s role rapidly expanded to incorporate project management as the organisation undertook a series of major brand development and restaging programmes. Many other opportunities arose over the years and her final role was that of Director of Marketing Operations. After leaving Diageo, Janyce spent time working as a visiting lecturer at a college and a university before returning to the commercial sector when she joined a small strategy consultancy as Planning and Commercial Development Director. Janyce took on her first non-executive director’s role in 2017 and plans to continue with that.

Janyce’s family are grown up. Her son is currently based in Canada working in an international secondary school teaching role, and her daughter lives and works in Glasgow after completing her master’s degree at university there.

Having returned home to Scotland, Janyce is delighted to join the Edinburgh College Board.