Interview: Alan Faichney, serial tech director They say that investors ultimately back the people in a business, because a great idea rarely works out well with the wrong people in charge. Alan Faichney would concur, and has been known to dispense with those not suited to the challenge ahead. However, he admits to being more […]
Interviews
Changing executive behaviour and reshaping the BBC
Interview: Atholl Duncan, executive coach Some big questions are being asked about funding the BBC. The licence fee is up for debate. Cutbacks are coming thick and fast. Scotland can’t, and won’t escape. It’s a familiar scenario to Atholl Duncan, who’s been there before; sweated over where the axe should fall and looked people in […]
Overcoming fear to home in on property challenges
Interview: Mike Fitzgerald, chairman, Coulters Mike Fitzgerald describes himself simply as “a normal boy from Currie” who’s made the most of opportunities thrown his way: a degree in law, a Masters from a top business school, and a commercial real estate partnership. Now he’s landed a top job running a property agency. It seems life […]
Deals flow into fast lane in quest to be the best
Interview: Michael Field, IT outsourcing specialist Michael Field says he doesn’t believe in standing still, regarding it as the enemy of progress. It’s his philosophy on life and a metaphor for how he lives it. He arrives at his modest office on a Livingston industrial estate in a bright orange gull-winged Mclaren sports car which […]
Counting on a crypto future that’s getting a bit closer
Interview: Ed Ludbrook, financial entrepreneur It had been a disappointing week for New Zealander Ed Ludbrook, seeing England knock the All Blacks out of the Rugby World Cup tournament that they had been expected to win. Ludbrook is a big chap who wouldn’t look out of place in his national team’s line-up, though he has […]