Mentors
We provide our members with the best possible environment to get their work done, connect with like-minded professionals, and grow their businesses. Whether you’re a startup or an established business, we have something to offer you. We have a great network of mentors to assist our tenants.
Shaf Rasul
CEO, SRA Ventures Ltd and Dragons Den
Maybe the time had come for the one of Scotland’s most successful entrepreneurs to slow down and set-up a comfortable lifestyle business that would allow him to pursue other interests like business mentoring and philanthropy. It was at that time Rasul – who starred as one of new Dragons in an online version of the BBC’s Dragons Den – established E-Net Computers.
Within a decade E-net went on to become the largest storage media distributor in Europe and one the biggest buyers of optical storage products in the world. The business grew exponentially after forging partnerships with the world’s top optical media manufacturers. A global import/export hub in Dubai and a £5million distribution centre at Edinburgh Airport were established to support the growth of the business which recorded peak sales of £67.2million during 2004-05.
In 2006 Ernst and Young Scottish Young Entrepreneur of the Year and was ranked 19th in a Management Today 2008 survey of the UK’s top 100 entrepreneurs. He has also been included in the Asian 100, a list of the most successful members of the British Asian community.
Marco Costa
Managing Director Caffe Torelli
During this period Marco Costa has been responsible for multiple successful retail operations from Costa Coffee.
Maybe the time had come for the one of Scotland’s most successful entrepreneurs to slow down and set-up a comfortable lifestyle business that would allow him to pursue other interests like business mentoring and philanthropy. It was at that time Rasul – who starred as one of new Dragons in an online version of the BBC’s Dragons Den – established E-Net Computers.
Within a decade E-net went on to become the largest storage media distributor in Europe and one the biggest buyers of optical storage products in the world. The business grew exponentially after forging partnerships with the world’s top optical media manufacturers. A global import/export hub in Dubai and a £5million distribution centre at Edinburgh Airport were established to support the growth of the business which recorded peak sales of £67.2million during 2004-05.
In 2006 Ernst and Young Scottish Young Entrepreneur of the Year and was ranked 19th in a Management Today 2008 survey of the UK’s top 100 entrepreneurs. He has also been included in the Asian 100, a list of the most successful members of the British Asian community.
David Jones
Managing Director, THIRTY30
Michael Devlin
CEO, Veuron, LaunchPros and Brand Warfare
The sale comes after Mr Devlin built a global following for the bottles, which athletes can use to carry protein supplements and the like. The bottles contain three trays that can be filled with powders, and then suspended vertically in a holder inside the bottle. The supplements can be mixed with water in the bottle.
More recently, In November 2019 Michael Launched his hugely anticipated Brand Warfare program and software which is a Five Day Program that enables online sellers to chose from $49M worth of products and begin drop shipping anywhere in the world. On day Five The Sales Funnel opens to invite members to access an industry first fully automated drop ship solution that ultimately set a NEW sales record by producing $1M in sales inside 48 hours.
The Click Funnel world record is a peer-to-peer acknowledgement of conversion speed that’s set between 100,000 Funnel Hackers.
Dr Raghu Ramaiah
Founder, Aiklu & Insigma & NHS clinical entrepreneur
He has been working for two clinical commissioning groups over the last five years and has huge experience with NHS functioning and financing from primary care to tertiary levels. He has led various services in the NHS, has been part of national decision-making boards and was also the chair of primary care co-commissioning committee for two years. He is the research lead for intensive care in Leicester and has led teams as chief investigator and principal investigator for various studies.
His network amongst the medical community is huge. He is currently the CEO and founder of Aiklu Ltd which is AI platform for diagnosis and management of skin conditions. NHS England have been so impressed with the usefulness of this technology he was selected into NHS clinical entrepreneur programme.
Over the last three years he has been managing teams of up to 22 data scientists and software developers to build the technology. He has huge experience in fundraising for start-ups. He also has experience in pitching effectively to VC investors.
David Thomson
Speaker, coach, consultant and advisor
That he now lives life on his own terms, that he’s a shining example of someone who gives back to the communities he serves, and that he delights in teaching others to tread their own path too, is just a part of what makes him a true inspiration.
Only now in his 50s, David is a global leader in the fields of persuasion and influence. And yet life should have been very different. He should have struggled, stayed small, and always been at someone else’s beck and call. But he didn’t. A practised and passionate speaker, coach, consultant and advisor, David builds instant rapport with any audience, speaks from the heart and from grounded experience, and provides take-aways which have the potential to skyrocket attendees’ businesses.
He believes in the ultimate win:win:win in life, that if you’re prepared to be outrageously brave, and you’re prepared to follow it with determined action and hard work, then you can achieve your wildest dreams.
