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Robert Kilgour

Founder & CEO

Dow Investments Plc

London, UK

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Robert’s Biography

Dr Robert Kilgour founded Four Seasons Health Care in 1988; when he left the company in 2000, it was the UK’s fifth largest care home operator with 101 homes employing 7,000 staff.

In 1990, Robert founded and remains CEO of Dow Investments Plc. In 2004, he founded and chairs Renaissance Care which operates 17 care homes throughout Scotland with 1,300 staff. He is co-founder and director of security systems specialists, NW Security Group and was a founder shareholder and chair of Kingdom FM Radio, the local radio franchisee for Fife until engineering its recent sale.

Robert is a non-executive director of Borland Insurance and an Advisory Board Director of E2E, a worldwide community of 24,000 entrepreneurs. He is also an Advisory Council Member of The Taxpayers Alliance and The Jobs Foundation. Robert is co-founder of, and an Ambassador for, Local Recovery, a 7,500 strong Scotland wide campaign group helping local groups access UK Government funds.

In 2006, Robert founded the Scottish political think-tank, Think Scotland. In 2017, he founded and chairs, SBUK, a group of 500 Scottish...
Dr Robert Kilgour founded Four Seasons Health Care in 1988; when he left the company in 2000, it was the UK’s fifth largest care home operator with 101 homes employing 7,000 staff.

In 1990, Robert founded and remains CEO of Dow Investments Plc. In 2004, he founded and chairs Renaissance Care which operates 17 care homes throughout Scotland with 1,300 staff. He is co-founder and director of security systems specialists, NW Security Group and was a founder shareholder and chair of Kingdom FM Radio, the local radio franchisee for Fife until engineering its recent sale.

Robert is a non-executive director of Borland Insurance and an Advisory Board Director of E2E, a worldwide community of 24,000 entrepreneurs. He is also an Advisory Council Member of The Taxpayers Alliance and The Jobs Foundation. Robert is co-founder of, and an Ambassador for, Local Recovery, a 7,500 strong Scotland wide campaign group helping local groups access UK Government funds.

In 2006, Robert founded the Scottish political think-tank, Think Scotland. In 2017, he founded and chairs, SBUK, a group of 500 Scottish businesses campaigning to stay in the UK. From 2000-03, he was on CBI Scottish Council and CBI UK SME Council. Robert’s current projects include co-founding and chairing the initiative to create a Museum of the Prime Ministers of the UK plus founding and chairing the Social Care Foundation.

Edinburgh born, brought up in Fife, educated at Loretto in Musselburgh, Robert splits time between homes in London and Fife. He is passionate about raising money for MacMillan Cancer Support and was appointed MacMillan’s first Ambassador in 2018. Robert recently received an honorary doctorate from Stirling University for his ‘outstanding contribution to entrepreneurship and philanthropy’.
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Robert’s Newsfeed

Families demand apology for pandemic visiting ban

According to Robert Kilgour, the founder of Renaissance Care, the investigation into the pandemic has had a slow and uncertain start. 

Care homes entrepreneur and charity founder honoured by University of Stirling

Robert Kilgour, Executive Chairman of Renaissance Care, has received an honorary degree from the University of Stirling.

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Robert’s Background

Dow Investments Plc
Founder & CEO
May 1990 - Present
London, UK
General investments.
Renaissance Care Group
Founder & Executive Chairman
Dec 2004 - Present
Edinburgh, UK
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 1,300 staff.
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Current Board Positions

Scottish Business UK
Founder
Mar 2017 - Present
Edinburgh, UK
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.
Think Scotland
Founder
2006 - Present
Edinburgh, UK
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.
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Previous Board Positions

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Cochrane McGregor
Non-Executive Director
1992 - 1994
Edinburgh, UK

Philanthropy

Macmillan Cancer Support
Ambassador
Dec 2018 - Present
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.
Macmillan Cancer Support
Fundraiser
2007 - 2009
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.
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Memberships

E2Exchange
Ambassador
May 2011 - Present
E2E is a community of successful entrepreneurs; creating an exchange between entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, and professional service providers.

Awards & Recognition

EY Entrepreneur Of The Year
Finalist, Scottish Entrepreneur of the Year
2001
Edinburgh, UK
Scottish Care: National Care Home Awards
Winner, Special Recognition Award
2019
Glasgow, UK

Pro Bono Work

Local Recovery
Ambassador
Mar 2022 - Present
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.

Robert’s Education

University of Stirling
Economics & History
1975 - 1978
Loretto School
1970 - 1975

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