Robert Kilgour is a Scottish property developer, investor, philanthropist and entrepreneur. His first business venture was running a stall selling jeans and t-shirts at Edinburgh’s Ingliston market while still a student at Stirling University. Just over a decade later, in 1988, he founded Four Seasons Health Care, which opened its first care home in May 1989. When Robert left the company in 2000 it was the UK’s fifth largest care home operator, running 101 care homes and employing 6,500 staff. Four Seasons remains one of the UK’s largest care home operators with some 185 care homes, caring for around 8,000 residents and employing 12,000 staff.
In 2004 he founded, and is currently Executive Chairman of, Renaissance Care which operates 16 care homes in Scotland and employs around 1,200 staff. Robert is also founder and CEO of Dow Investments Plc, now in its third decade. He is a Director and co-founder of video and security systems specialists, NW Security Group and was also a founder shareholder and, until he engineered its sale in 2019, Chairman of Kingdom FM Radio. Robert holds several...Robert Kilgour is a Scottish property developer, investor, philanthropist and entrepreneur. His first business venture was running a stall selling jeans and t-shirts at Edinburgh’s Ingliston market while still a student at Stirling University. Just over a decade later, in 1988, he founded Four Seasons Health Care, which opened its first care home in May 1989. When Robert left the company in 2000 it was the UK’s fifth largest care home operator, running 101 care homes and employing 6,500 staff. Four Seasons remains one of the UK’s largest care home operators with some 185 care homes, caring for around 8,000 residents and employing 12,000 staff.
In 2004 he founded, and is currently Executive Chairman of, Renaissance Care which operates 16 care homes in Scotland and employs around 1,200 staff. Robert is also founder and CEO of Dow Investments Plc, now in its third decade. He is a Director and co-founder of video and security systems specialists, NW Security Group and was also a founder shareholder and, until he engineered its sale in 2019, Chairman of Kingdom FM Radio. Robert holds several other Non-Executive Directorships and Senior Adviser roles.
In 2006 Robert set up the Scottish online political think-tank, Think Scotland, and in 2017 founded SBUK to campaign against a second Scottish Independence Referendum. He has also served on both the CBI Scotland Council and the CBI UK SME Council.
Born in Edinburgh, brought up in Fife and educated at Loretto School in Musselburgh, Robert now divides his time between London and his home in Fife, whenever possible raising money for Macmillan Cancer Support. Over the last 30 years he has raised more than £2m for the charity and in 2018 he was appointed Macmillan’s first Ambassador.moreless
Scottish care home operator with 16 care homes in Edinburgh, Glasgow, East Lothian, Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, North & South Lanarkshire, Perthshire and Moray. The company employs approximately 1,200 staff.
A leading provider of high-performance video and security systems employing 15 staff.
My Care Staff Ltd
Founder & Director
Mar 2017 - Present
Kirkcaldy, UK
A website that will put carers and nurses looking for work directly in touch with care homes and hospitals looking for staff, thus cutting out the agencies to the financial benefit of both parties involved.
Business and industry in Scotland are facing up to the challenges posed by Brexit. SBUK understand the importance of recasting Scotland's relationship with the EU based on free-trade and new forms of co-operation.
Established as a virtual think tank in 2006, to encourage greater discussion in Scotland about economic, social & constitutional policies – from the perspective of mainly Scottish Conservative authors.
Established in 1995, Borland are a privately owned independent insurance broker. Borland Private Clients believe that the owners of fine homes, valuable possessions and prestige motor vehicles require specialist insurance advice and coverage.
StoriiCare understand how photographs can help to recover memories for those living with dementia. They developed a new approach to person-centred care. StoriiCare is a care management system with life stories at its core.
Morphose Capital Partners (FCA)
Non Executive Director
Jul 2015 - Present
London, UK
London-based specialists in M&A advisory, brokerage and refinancing.
Robert Kilgour became Macmillan Cancer Support’s first Ambassador in December in 2018. Over the last 30 years he has helped to raise over £2,000,000 for the charity.
Robert Kilgour part funded and opened the new Macmillan Cancer Information & Support Centre at the Western General Hospital in Edinburgh in 2009. He also part funded the establishment of the first Macmillan Cancer Information & Support Centre in the UK at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, North London in 2007.
Chaired a joint venture between Macmillan Cancer Support and Fife Health Board to raise £1m to improve hospice facilities throughout Fife. The final total raised was over £1.75m.
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Robert Kilgour is an Ambassador for Local Recovery, an organisation dedicated to ensuring that UK and Scottish governments prioritise local priorities as communities recover from the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
