Interview: Nadeem Sarwar, online entrepreneur As with comedy, success in business can come down to good timing. While everybody wants the Covid crisis to go away, it has fed a number of businesses which were well-placed to respond. Nadeem Sarwar’s online pharmacy and delivery company, Phlo, launched last autumn hoping to disrupt the traditional chemist […]
Interviews
Dipping deeper into the world of flexible working
Interview: Mark Gibson, Capito In a year of change probably like no other in recent times there can be few white collar workers unfamiliar with the shift to home working and virtual communication. Mark Gibson can claim to have been ahead of the game, spotting the trend last summer before hardly anyone outside the tech […]
Unlocking Scotland’s tech potential
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 […]
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 […]