Meet THE TEAM
Andrew McEwan - Mentor
Internet & Social Media / And We Do This Ltd
Andrew is a marketing and systems expert who helps businesses generate more leads and sales opportunities plus save time in their day-to-day tasks. His agency And We Do This has been helping business thrive since 2000 by developing all-in-one marketing strategies that co-ordinate web, ecommerce, social media, video and automation.
Arthur Rennie - Mentor
Sales & Marketing / South of Scotland Local Export Partnership (SoSLEP)
I get very excited about marketing local products and developing sales for local businesses, especially to export markets. I have spent a great deal of my 30 year career developing sales with success in 21 countries. The world wants to buy our great products – we just need the plans and resource to make it happen!
Hans Waltl frsa fcca - Mentor & Group Manager
FINANCE & STRATEGY / Borders Chartered Certified Accountants
I currently work as a Director for a number of companies ranging from the renewables sector to International Operations as well as, in practice, with Borders Chartered Certified Accountants where I specialise in business turnaround/growth, VC schemes & international business especially in China and SE Asia.
Willie Wood - Mentor
HUMAN RESOURCES / Johnstons of Elgin
I currently work as a Director for a number of companies ranging from the renewables sector to International Operations as well as, in practice, with Borders Chartered Certified Accountants where I specialise in business turnaround/growth, VC schemes & international business especially in China and SE Asia.
Raymond Kerr - Mentor
OPERATIONS / Qube GB Ltd
Experienced Chief Commercial Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the telecommunications industry. Skilled in Service Delivery, Negotiation, Fleet Operations, Mobile Communications, and Entrepreneurship. Strong business and professional acumen. Mentoring, Non Exec and Trustee roles play a part of daily life.
Edmund Johnston - Group Manager
GROUP MENTORING MANAGER
After selling my very successful peer group mentoring business in 2015 I am now able to indulge in a much wider range of interests including lots of travel, more time for family and friends, having new experiences and learning new skills while actively encouraging and assisting entrepreneurial growth.
Mike Wilson - Group Manager
Eildon Systems
Mike Wilson has been involved with manufacturing all of his working life, starting out as an apprentice in Edinburgh with marine engineers Brown Brothers then with Uni-Royal as a planning and industrial engineer. Mike moved to the Scottish Borders in 1969 when he joined Ballantyne Sportswear, Innerleithen, where he became Chief Industrial Engineer. He worked in Brazil for Dawson International in 1974-75 then returned to Ballantyne until 1978. A two year spell with Kinloch Anderson in Edinburgh followed. In 1980 he moved into sales and marketing with electronics manufacturer Bram International, Galashiels. For the last 36 years Mike has been an active exporter and is the proprietor of electronics manufacturer Eildon Systems. He was chair of the Scottish Borders Exporters Association for 23 years and instrumental in the creation of the Scottish Borders Business Forum. He brought together the MDs of the Borders knitwear companies, encouraging them to work together, and he played a major role in developing the group’s Modern Apprenticeship programme. He has run programmes designed to encourage Borders businesses into exporting and has worked with high schools on the Institute of Export’s Young International Trader programme. Now semi-retired he is involved in voluntary mentoring and currently in the creation of a Group and Peer-to-Peer mentoring programme for the many small and micro businesses in the Scottish Borders. Mike lives in Innerleithen and is a very keen golfer.
Emma McCallum - Enterprise Facilitator
Mentoring for Growth
Emma has worked with a number of businesses within and outwith the Scottish Borders in a variety of roles including Marketing, PR, Fundraising, Research and Bookkeeping. Emma was brought up in the Borders and went to Heriot-Watt University, after 13 year working in London returned to the area with her husband and their two daughters.