Joe Pacitti (pic: Terry Murden) So, how many times have you been made redundant? “Seven,” replies Joe Pacitti. “If you work in engineering you have have to get used to downsizing and restructuring.” It’s a bold statement that partly explains the chunky CV, and might be enough to put some people off even entering the […]
Interviews
Retailers battling for home advantage
Retail revival: Vivien Smith and Fallon Cowley (pic: Terry Murden) Interview: Vivien Smith and Fallon Cowley, retail entrepreneurs We’ve all got used to retail being in retreat, with the loss of well-known names and once-busy shopping streets blighted by boarded up units. So the re-opening of a derelict unit in one of Scotland’s commuter hotspots […]
Speaking up for topics driving change
Tino Nombro and Debbie Byers (pic: Terry Murden) Interview: Debbie Byers and Tino Nombro of Speaker Buzz When John Davidson was hired to speak at a corporate event he didn’t just turn up for his hour-long booking, grab a drink afterwards with the organisers and then head off home. He sat through the whole two […]
Freshly minted angels spread their wings
Gillian Fleming: democratising angel investing (pic: Terry Murden) Interview: Gillian Fleming, CEO, Mint Ventures An angel investment group led by women to help other women is not a new idea, but there is plenty of fresh thinking behind Mint Ventures which debuted last week and is already starting to turn heads. For starters, it wants […]
One-time rebel on a renewables mission
Power plan: Gen Cannibal (pic: Terry Murden) Interview: Gen Cannibal, environmental entrepreneur Intelligence, according to the bespectacled man sitting opposite me, is innate while passing exams is a result of training. It explains, perhaps, why the boy who grew up on a Lancashire council estate and played in a punk rock band dropped out of […]