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Entrepreneurial Scotland is a member network and leadership development organisation providing opportunities for like-minded ambitious individuals to share experiences and develop their leadership skills. We aim to inspire, develop and connect Scotland's current and future leaders to build the most entrepreneurial society in the world.
Following graduating his Saltire Fellowship Assean launched Flavourly, the fastest growing gourmet food, snack and craft beer discovery service. Flavourly is currently on track to reach £1M in sales and in the process of closing substantial seed investment.
In their first year first year – Cheeky Chompers quickly established a direct retail network in the UK and a distribution network overseas. Today they count major retailers like John Lewis, JoJo Maman Bebe, Joules, Boots and M&S amongst their UK customers and they now sell in over 30 countries.
One of Scotland’s most successful entrepreneurs, Mike Welch OBE sold Blackcircles.com for £50m in May 2015 and is a regular contributor to ES events.
Lucinda founded Genius in 2009 with her first ever gluten-free loaf, after failing to find good quality gluten-free and wheat-free bread suitable for her gluten intolerant son. She has won numerous awards including the Ernst & Young UK Emerging Entrepreneur of the Year Award and the Private Businesswoman of the Year category in the Price Waterhouse Coopers Private Business Awards.
Our Foundation is the charitable arm through which Entrepreneurial Scotland raises funds to develop the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders. We support world-class development for high potential leaders at the early or mid-career stages through our programmes. The people we believe will be the next generation of entrepreneurial leaders and contribute to Scotland’s success.
Find out moreFounder of Blackcircles.com
I think we have the ingredients for something really exciting.
Co-founder and Chief Executive of Skyscanner
Skyscanner can attest that there’s every opportunity to build a global business headquartered here in Scotland
Co-founder and Chief Executive of FanDuel
Peers can be one of the most valuable sources of information and advice when building a company. I hope that by sharing my experiences, including the challenges I’ve faced, I can help others with their own entrepreneurial ambitions.
Celtic Renewables
If it wasn’t for the Entrepreneurial Scotland Fellowship programme, I would not be CEO of Celtic Renewables and to have experienced a complete step-change in my career trajectory in a totally new sector, renewable energy.