Advisory Group

Eddie Jordan OBE
Group Advisor
Founder Jordan Grand Prix and board member of Citibank Private Bank as well as advisor to Lloyds Development Capital. EJ has an extensive investment portfolio in property, technology, energy, luxury goods, and hedge funds. He holds several honorary awards including a Doctorate from Dublin’s Institute of Technology.
Denis O'Brien
Group Advisor
Chairman and principal shareholder of Digicel Group, Denis is one of Ireland’s leading entrepreneurs with extensive investments across several sectors including international telecoms, media and property. He founded Communicorp Group and Esat Telecom Group plc, which he later sold to British Telecom plc for € 2.4 billion.

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Francesco Costa
Group Advisor
Global entrepreneur with over 20 years' experience building successful businesses servicing the migrant market. Founded the ISI Group, the leading European business providing financial, telcom and insurance services to migrants, alongside the world's 5th largest international remittances network. In the late 1990s Francesco began to build up the ISI Group entirely from scratch.

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Peter Digby
Industry Advisor
Peter Digby is the CEO of Xtrac, a world leader in the design and manufacture of motorsport transmission systems. He joined shortly after the company was founded in 1984 having previously worked for the Williams and Team Haas F1 Teams alongside Patrick Head, Ross Brawn and Adrian Newey. Peter helped to build the business up to 150 employees and in 1997 led a Management Buy Out from the founder.

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Bob Woolley
Industry Advisor
Senior Director of Global Data Center Services for Schneider Electric, Bob has been active in the Data Center industry for over 25 years in a variety of Engineering and Management roles. He has extensive experience in building and running technical service programs and has been responsible for the operation of over 75 Data Centers throughout his career. Bob has authored several white papers on critical facility operations and was responsible for the creation of the Critical Facility Operations Maturity Model.
John Scott
Group Advisor
John Scott became Managing Director of Scott Timber aged 18 years, and soon transformed his family’s sawmill into one of the world’s top pallet manufacturers. John went on to acquire numerous related businesses and establish the Group’s first overseas operation in Latvia. An entrepreneurial and flexible approach to management resulted in turnover of £96k and a trading loss being converted into around £80m in sales and a healthy profit, while employment was increased from 4 to over 700.

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Kola Karim
Group Advisor
Group Managing Director and CEO of Shoreline Energy International, a leading energy and infrastructure company focused on Sub-Saharan Africa. Kola is also Chairman of Shoreline Natural Resources, the second largest onshore oil field by reserves in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Kevin McCabe
Group Advisor
Founder of Scarborough Group. Owner of Sheffield United, with interests also in Central Coast Mariners FC, Australia and Chengdu Blades FC, China. Kevin exited SCAMP Group in 2007 for £850m but continues to invest heavily in real estate assets in the UK, Greater China and more recently Myanmar.

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