Stewart Milne CBE, DBA, DTech (born c. 1950) is a Scottish businessman and football club chairman, from Alford, Aberdeenshire.
Milne founded the Aberdeen-based Stewart Milne Group in 1975, a housebuilding contractor. He started off his business renovating bathrooms. As its chairman, he earned the 2005 Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year award and is rumoured to have amassed a personal fortune of around £400million.
In 2008, he received his Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for services to the house building industry in Scotland.
Milne lives in Bieldside Aberdeen in a multi-million pound home which was renovated in 2009 by Stewart Milne Group.
Milne is also a major shareholder and chairman of Aberdeen F.C., a position he has held since 1998. He joined the board of directors in 1994 to replace Dick Donald.
In 2009 Stewart became honourary Chairman of Cornton Football Club, due to his contribution to football in the area. He has an Honorary Doctorate in Business Administration from Robert Gordon University (December 2000). and an Honorary Doctorate of Technology from Edinburgh Napier University (November 2007).
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