Sir William Benjamin Bowring Gammell FRSE (born 29 December 1952) is a Scottish businessman and former Scotland international rugby union player. Early life Gammell was born in Edinburgh, and was the son of an investment banker, who was invited at an early age to join Edinburgh's Ivory & Sime (which was started in the late 1800s with the formation of the British Assets Trust.) Gammell attended Fettes College, an independent school in Edinburgh where he was friends and debating partners with future British Prime Minister Tony Blair. The two have remained close friends. After Fettes, Gammell attended the University of Stirling where he obtained a BA in Economics and Accountancy. Rugby Union career Amateur career He played for Edinburgh Wanderers. Provincial career He played for Edinburgh District. International career He was capped by Scotland 'B' to play France 'B' in 1976 and 1977. He then was given a full senior cap for Scotland in 1977. He went on to earn five international caps in total. He scored two tries on his debut, against Ireland at Murrayfield in 1977,and played against Japan in 1977 in Tokyo when he scored four tries in the Scots' 74–9 victory. Business career After his rugby career was ended by injury, Gammell followed his father into business. Using venture capital, he founded Cairn Energy in Edinburgh. The company invested in several unsuccessful oilfields in the United States before making a modest strike in the Pennsylvania oilfield. Gammell was appointed Cairn's Chief Executive on its initial listing in 1989. In the mid-1990s, he led the company in a radical reallocation of its assets, moving out of US and North Sea oil and gas concerns and into neglected fields in South Asia. The company's fortunes soared in 2004, when a field it had bought in 2001 (for $7.5 million) from Shell in the Indian province of Rajasthan was found to contain close to 1.1 billion barrels of oil, catapulting it into the FTSE 100. Gammell was paid an annual salary of £552,000 for his role as chief executive at Cairn Energy. On 1 July 2011 Gammell assumed the role of non-executive chairman. Gammell's father invested in US oil company Bush-Overbey, owned by future US President George H. W. Bush. The two families became friends, with George W. Bush spending the summer at the Gammells' farm in Scotland, and attending Gammell's wedding in Glasgow in 1983. The two have