Management Team

The Management Team have built up a wealth of experience in providing support to individuals with profound and complex learning disabilities. their objective is always to involve the family in descisions about individual's future plans and where possible they provide the greatest choice to those individuals themselves.

Joe Whyte BSc (hons), B.Arch, CEO & MD

An architect, formerly working in private practice, Joe has been involved in the voluntary sector since 1990. As an employee of Enable he helped develop their community residential programme for adults with profound learning and physical disabilities, across Scotland, as part of the major hospital closure programme.

He has worked with SHARE since 1999, and has been the Organization's Chief Executive and Managing Director since 2002.

Tom Gorrie, Finance Director

The father of Carol Anne, who had profound learning disabilities caused by a lack of oxygen at birth. Tom, with Dr Brian Venters was a founder member of Share Scotland and a campaigner for care in the community for those with profound and complex disabilities.

Tom is a Management Accountant who spent 35 years in the Scotch Whisky industry with Allied Domecq and latterly as Head of Systems and Logistics with Burn Stewart Distillers.

Lynne Dignon, Regional Coordinator (West)

Lynne graduated with MA (Hons) in Psychology from Glasgow University in 1986. From 1987 until 1991, she worked in Surrey, initially as a houseparent of girls who had severe neurological conditions, and then as 'Head of Care' in a special needs girls' school. She joined SHARE Scotland in late 1991.

In the past few years, she has trained in hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming and solution focused therapy which have contributed to her role as a senior manager and trainer.

Kenny Stein, Regional Coordinator (East)

In 1982 Kenny quaified as an Enrolled Nurse (General) at the Borders College of Nursing, Peel Hospital, near Galashiels. He then worked at Dingelton Psychiatric Hospital in Melrose in before moving to Edinburgh in 1984 to take up a post at Astley Ainslie Hospital. In 1985 he moved to the Princess Margaret Rose Hospital to specialise in orthopedic nursing. Kenny then moved to work in the Edinbrgh Royal Infirmiary in the Genito-urinary outpatient department in 1986. By 1987 he was working at the Eastern Hospital in Edinburgh and by late 1988 was working at the City Hospital in Edinburgh. Kenny then moved to the Western General Hospital to work in the dialysis and transplant unity. At the end of 1989 he took up a post at St Joseph Hospital in Rosewell and by 1992 he was qualified as a Registered Learning Disabilities Nurse (formerly known as RNMH).

Kenny then left the NHS and worked for ELCAP in East Lothian suporting adults with learning disabilities living in the community, and eventually rose to the level of Area Manager before leaving the company to work for SHARE Scotland in 2002 as their East Regional Co-ordinator. Since then Kenny has achieved the Registered Managers Award in 2007.

Dougie Reid, Development Manager

Dougie previously worked in Richmond Park School, Hampden School and at Dalmarnock Adult Training Centre. He also did voluntary work with the supported learning unit at Glasgow College of Nautical Studies.

Dougie joined Share in 1997 as a support worker and then managed one of our Glasgow services. In 2005, he set up and managed a new service in West Dunbartonshire and was then promoted to Regional Co-ordinator in 2007. Dougie has since moved into the role of Development Manager and is working with a number of families, local authorities and housing providers on future residential services. He is also leading the West Dunbartonshire Transitions Project, a Big Lottery funded project which is helping young people with learning disabilities in West Dunbartonshire to plan for their future.