Ranauld was appointed by co-option to the parish council on the 26th of August 2025.
"I am a Chartered Civil Engineer who, after being involved in the construction of Shell Brent "C" and Shell Cormorant "A" North Sea Oil Platforms on the Clyde back in the seventies, went overseas, initially to somewhere that no one had heard of, a place called Dubai, United Arab Emirates and thereafter Trinidad, Hong Kong, Tanzania, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. In the course a three year spell managing a construction company in Swindon, while living in Bristol my wife and I bought a derelict barn in Tormarton, which we and our two sons moved into two years later, just before Christmas 1991.
But the telephone rang again and we were on our way back to Dubai to manage the Balfour Beatty company just in time for the first Gulf War. Six years later after construction of the much of the Dubai Motorway network, the Burj Al Arab and the Jumeirah Beach Hotel we moved to Egypt and I was responsible for the construction of the new Alexandria Bibliotech, Cairo Wastewater and the North South Carrier Pipeline in Botswana. Thereafter was Media City Cairo. This was Egyptian Television's equivalent of BBC Broadcasting House.
In 2005 we moved to Qatar and the first contract was for the construction of the first church in Qatar, followed by the General Electric Advanced Technology Research Centre at Education City. Thereafter I took a step back and became a Contractual Clain consultant. I retired in December 2021 and we returned to UK. My passion is sailing and we keep the Ocean Gem in Plymouth."