Meet the Team

George has a B.Acc in Accountancy, Law and Economics, is a Chartered Accountant and has had leadership roles as CEO and CFO across a range of sizeable companies. He has been a business coach for over 20 years and has helped both companies and young professionals develop the business skills and knowledge they need to deliver results. George also worked with a leading management consultancy business to “coach the coaches” helping the next generation acquire the necessary skills.

George is also responsible for the on-going development of the on-line coaching tool that is available for Startup4ten® policyholders.

Duncan has a wealth of management, strategic and leadership experience across several industry sectors from fledgling technology start-ups to a £140m turnover motor industry business. As a past CEO of the Glasgow Chamber of Commerce he also has significant public sector experience and his contribution to the organisation and the wider business community was publicly recognised when he was awarded the Gold medal for Enterprise by Glasgow City Council in 2004.

Duncan is helping businesses deliver on their aspirations and a younger generation of entrepreneur to find their individual pathways to success and growth. 

Gordon is a Chartered Engineer and has held both senior technical and senior corporate management positions in several businesses within the UK and overseas. He was part of a joint Scottish Enterprise/Royal Society of Edinburgh working party in the mid 1990’s that reviewed the potential for the commercialisation of the science base in Scotland.   

Since then much of his working life has been spent in the world of start-ups and early-stage companies particularly where the business propositions have been rooted in innovative technologies; areas including software development, environmental protection and medical devices.  He has fulfilled a variety of roles including interim manager, non-executive director, adviser and mentor.

Elaine works with companies of all shapes and sizes either on specific project work or as part of a wider supporting and coaching role with businesses seeking to develop and implement their strategic plans. Her career has seen her take on a variety of leadership and financial roles including Start-up support, Corporate Restructuring, Public Sector Investment Portfolio Management, as well as Financial Director and Company Secretary roles in the Life Science sector. Elaine has successfully helped organisations raise funds, undertake trade sales and help with the subsequent integration into the parent operation. 

Elaine has a BA in Accountancy and Economics and is a member of the Institute for Chartered Accountants for Scotland.

As a Chartered Accountant Graham has worked in the UK and overseas in a variety of industry sectors including Engineering, Property and Retail. For 25 years he successfully managed his multi-location sports retail company and property business until the retail business trade sale in 2014.

Graham continues to run the property business as well as provide financial consultancy and advice to several independent businesses and a leading rugby charity.

Craig is the founder of Startup4ten® and the Inventive Step® coaching network and has been an Insurance Broker for over 27 years.

Craig set up his own broking business, Insurance Management Group in 1995 and built the company into a quality commercial broker with a strong focus on young, start-up companies and innovating businesses.

In 2013 he sold his company to Aston Scott a large independent broker seeking to expand in Scotland. He then headed up the combined Scottish operation until January 2017 when he left to once again work on his own projects.

Over the years Craig has worked with many young businesses and some very successful entrepreneurs, he has seen and experienced the balance needed between taking risk and avoiding risk to grow your business and be successful. This was his motivation for setting up Startup4ten® to support young companies by combining quality insurance solutions to protect their businesses with practical coaching advice.

Experienced and successful sales management and performance coaching professional turned teambuilder now focused on enabling corporate and new start-up teams to be hugely successful.

With over 40 years of team performance experience and a passion for teambuilding, I can support and enable teams to navigate the stages of team development to ensure the team hits its targets and goals.

To assist you in your quest to attain high performance I can support you via innovative team development models such as PARTNERS and DIAMOND MOTIVATION. These bring structure and focus and ensure that your company owners, team managers and leaders have the skills and knowledge to guide their teams effectively to the results they deserve.

Ken has worked in the creative industry for over 30 years. He has worked his way through the ranks as a designer, studio manager and creative director before setting up and running his own full service agency.

He has been an independent consultant for the last 17 years working specifically with SME owners and managers to provide targeted branding and marketing services.

As a designer to trade he understands the application of branding in a practical sense and its implementation through all marketing channels and believes that the early adoption of brand strategy is fundamental to the growth and success of any business.

Having left a Career as a Chartered Banker, Nic started his own Coaching business, developing his markets and networks as an entrepreneur.

Nic is fully accredited with the Association for Coaching as a Professional Executive Coach and has completed over 2000 hours of Coaching in the last 5 years alone.

His career has incorporated Leadership, Sales (both Retail, Business and Corporate), Service and even specialised knowledge in particular industries having worked across the UK and in South Africa.

Nic has a wide array of qualifications which is strongly linked to his desire for continuous improvement and self-development. He has studied with the Open University, Damelin College in Johannesburg, the University of South Africa in Pretoria as well as the Harvard Business School. He is also a Practitioner in Emotional Intelligence as well as having been certified as a Professional in Agile Coaching.

Tess arrived in the UK in 2005, with her family. Her work attitude and ethos was developed over 18 years in South Africa, and she decided to consolidate all her experience in Fashion (Design, Manufacturing to retail), as well as sales and marketing experience in a variety of industries, to launch her own coaching business.

First it was back to the books to gain her Diploma with Distinction in Life Coaching through The Institute of Life Coaching. Since the beginning Tess has continued her education as a coach studying and attending workshops with Anthony Robbins, (UPW and Business Mastery), Bob Proctor and his work with the Napoleon Hill Foundation, Think and Grow Rich, ‘Change your Paradigm change your life’ as well as being a member of the Dan Bradbury Mastermind Group in London. She is also a qualified facilitator of ‘The Mastery Club’ a program that delivers core life skills to young people, and she trained with its founder Liliane Grace (Australia)Her first Mastermind was launched in 2010 and ran for 6 years. Her marketing qualification came through study at Damelin in Cape Town while all her sales experience came through training on the job and most recently via online lessons with Grant Cardone.

Tess’s strength lies in developing leaders while they grow their businesses, she combines the SU4T Business Model and alongside the practical and essential business process she adds value around Mindset, and personal development, that then combine for the ultimate business success, in her opinion. She has supported new coaches, solicitors, accountants, M.D. in the Energy sector, artists, financial advisors, Beauty industry, Founders of charities and Franchise owners to name a few sectors.

Over the last 15 years she has coached offline and online, she is a speaker and coach who has the desire to help leaders find their inner voice manage change and achieve more than business success.

My name is Andy Wheeler, I’m a business problem solver. I help business owners visualise and simplify the running of their companies. Having the right skills and knowledge to run a business is not something we are all born with but, is something we can learn. Reducing the time spent worrying about tasks they don’t know how to handle and instead focus on what really matters.

This blend of coaching and consultancy helps overwhelmed business owners grow and scale their companies.