Robin McGregor

Robin McGregor is a director of Christie Griffith and a Chartered Accountant with a comprehensive background in Corporate Finance.  He trained with Coopers & Lybrand (now PWC) where he specialisied in corporate recovery and corporate finance.  In 1995 he joined the business banking team at the Clydesdale Bank as a Relationship Manager, responsible for portfolio of corporate customers.  In 1998 he joined the British Linen Bank and was involved in a number of listed transactions. In 1999 he was one of the MBO team that created British Linen Advisers and he took the lead in raising over £42million for PPL Therapeutics' manufacturing facility. In 2000 he led the successful fundraising for Scottishmedicine, a medical services business and then joined the company as finance director.  In 2003 he negotiated the sale of those businesses to a venture capital house.  He joined Christie Griffith in 2004 and has worked extensively with early stage companies, particularly in renewable energy and engineering.  He was a member of the Marine Energy Group, part of the Scottish Government's FREDS committee, that published the Marine Energy Roadmap in 2009.  Robin has also undertaken a wide range of business consultancy projects across a number of different sectors from housing to healthcare.