Maria McKinney

Maria joins the Scottish EDGE team on a 12-month secondment from Scottish Enterprise on a part-time basis, splitting her time between Scottish EDGE and the Entrepreneurship and Investment team at Scottish Enterprise. Maria supports the EDGE team as a Relationship Manager, advising and guiding EDGE winners as they grow and commercialise their businesses.

Maria has several years of experience in the conference and event management sector, organising numerous high-profile conferences around the UK. She spent a further 7 years as Corporate & Events Manager in a multi-arts venue in Glasgow, managing a small team and selling this unique venue to corporate and conference clients. Following, redundancy, Maria went to work at Scottish Enterprise - starting in the Workplace Innovation team before moving to the Low Carbon team and latterly joining the Entrepreneurship and Investment Team, working with early-stage high-growth.