1. Register your interest in a 1-1 mentor session. Outline your business, your challenges, aspirations and what you would like to achieve from the one-hour session.
2. 1-hour sessions - Each month, established business leaders generously offer one hour of their time to dedicate to one of the registered participants in an online mentoring session.
3. The Match - Based on your profile and needs, and the skills and experience of our mentor, we will match the most appropriate people together.
Please note that availability is limited and a match is not guaranteed.
Applications not matched this month, or received after 15th of the month will be carried over to the following round.
With over 20 years of experience in both corporate and startup environments across the US, UK and Asia, Robert's experience has been focused on building new and emerging digital products & services and bringing them to market. He is skilled at finding the right leadership balance using reasoned and analytical decision making, empathetic people leadership, and efficient execution.
Having worked previously in senior roles with American Express and Booz Allen Hamilton, Robert is currently senior executive for Amnity and Division CEO of their SaaS B2B Eko businessline.
Ross has built Copylab to be a global copywriting agency serving the financial services market in 8 countries with more than 100 people.
Having founded a company and led the team through its evolution, Ross has first-hand experience of the growing pains every business owner faces. And he’s keen to share that with the next generation of Scotland’s entrepreneurial community.
If you’re struggling with: building a team, leading better, managing resources, exploiting opportunities, delegating, growing a service business, exporting, creating a strategy, goal setting, bootstrapping, outsourcing, client service, or effective sales and marketing, then you can benefit from Ross’s experience.
Ross is an ideator, a creative thinker who brings solutions to your problems and a positive energy to your challenges.
Gilad Tiefenbrun is the CEO of Linn Products Ltd (“Linn”), the company his father, Ivor, founded in 1973 with the revolutionary Linn Sondek LP12 turntable.
From the age of 13, Gilad worked at Linn during his school holidays and university break in various parts of the company, from product assembly to design. This experience led to his decision to study Electronics and Electrical Engineering at Edinburgh University, achieving his BEng with 2.1 honours.
After graduation Gilad put his academic knowledge into practice, this time outside of Linn to gain a wider engineering and business perspective. This included stints at Drake, Avid and Symbian. At Symbian, Gilad worked his way up through the ranks starting in 1998 as Senior Software Engineer and leaving in 2003 as Master Integration Manager where during a growth period for mobile communications he was at the forefront of delivering the latest innovations for the likes of Nokia, Sony Ericsson and Motorola. His experience in creating open system solutions would later prove invaluable at Linn.
Gilad returned to Linn in 2003 with a drive and determination to bring back into the business all he had learned in his career to date. As Head of R & D, Gilad swiftly commenced a large-scale restructuring of the department, making critical changes to both the team structure and the new product introduction process.
He built on Linn’s existing capabilities in acoustic, mechanical and electronic engineering by integrating a first-rate computer and software engineering function. In 2005, he became Director of Engineering and was appointed onto the executive management team.
In 2008 Gilad attained an Executive MBA from Harvard Business School. He was appointed Managing Director of Linn in February 2009 and then became CEO in April 2021. Under Gilad’s leadership Linn maintains its unique family values and close relationship with customers.
One of Gilad’s greatest achievements to date is the introduction of the Linn DS product family, which established Linn’s leadership in digital music streaming and marked a shift of seismic proportions for the industry as a whole. And as if history were repeating itself, the company’s move into digital music streaming displayed stunning hallmarks of Linn’s early leadership in high quality vinyl performance, with the legendary Sondek LP12 turntable introduced over 40 years ago and championed by Gilad’s father and predecessor Ivor. Where Ivor’s Sondek LP12 retrieved more information from the groove of a vinyl record, Linn DS does the same for digital music, applying Linn’s precision-engineering to the creation of music from a digital stream.
From 2010 to 2013 Gilad played a key role on the Steering Committee within the Future SME Project, a multi-million pound EU research project led by the University of Strathclyde to develop a sustainable business model for high value SME manufacturing companies across Europe.
In 2014, Gilad was appointed Visiting Professor at Heriot-Watt University by the School of Management and
Languages, where he lectures on business performance management and systems thinking. He also guest lectures at Imperial College, London on their MBA programme’s Family Business elective.
Gilad is regularly invited to guest lecture and speak at Conferences on Innovation and Product Development, as well as Family Business. Recent engagements include keynote speeches at the International Conference on Design Creativity in 2012, and the Innovation and Product Development Conference in June 2016. Along with his father, Ivor, he delivered keynote speeches at the Coutts Family Business Forum in London in 2010 and the Institute for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference in Glasgow in 2015.
Gilad is active in the Young Presidents’ Organisation, and held the role of Education Officer in the Scotland Chapter between 2014 and 2016.
Gilad is married to Rachel and they have three daughters. His personal interests include music, playing guitar, singing with a band occasionally, and enjoying an eclectic mix of recorded and live music, and he also enjoys hill climbing, playing poker, reading, and family life.
Becoming a mentor is your opportunity for you to give something back to Scotland by supporting Scotland's entrepreneurial leaders.
The mentoring sessions require a 1-hour commitment. In that hour you are directly helping shape and grow leaders and businesses in Scotland.
To learn more about becoming an ES Mentor, please get in touch below for further information.