Jacqueline Daniell enjoyed a nomadic childhood. By the time the Crimson Tide chief executive was 11 she had lived in seven different counties of England, due to her builder father's entrepreneurial knack of doing up and building homes and selling them for a profit. Episode 15 of the All Points West Podcast explores how her father's love of building and new technology (he had a Pulsar digital watch in the 70s) has influenced her own career path through architecture, regeneration and town planning...
Mar 27, 2024•31 min•Ep. 15
Judith MacKenzie has a 'death wish'... she is an eventer. It means that most weekends she can be found in her Land Rover, towing a horsebox around the country to compete at equestrian events. It's not a surprise to discover that the head of Downing Fund Managers is a gritty competitor who enjoys a challenge. Judith credits her 'Scottish Presbyterian work ethic', handed down from her small business owning parents, for her attitude to hard work and desire to dig into the details of the Aim-listed ...
Mar 13, 2024•24 min•Ep. 14
In the '90s, Stuart Neal played guitar in a band with his friends. The allure of gigging in smoky pubs around the country eventually succumbed to the more sedate attractions of family life and a burgeoning business career. Rock n Roll's loss was finance's gain, as the chief executive of Boku, the Aim-listed payments firm, set off on a wild career ride that took him from Virgin Media to a Silicon Valley start-up. Episode 13 of the All Points West Podcast hears why the guitar strumming, oil painti...
Feb 28, 2024•24 min•Ep. 13
Steve Bassi's first job enabled him to get up to "teen mischief" on the computer systems of local businesses in the Californian farming town where he grew up. It proved to be just the start he needed to break into the world of cyber security, where the chief executive of Narf Industries is an expert in developing software that can detect threats and defend complex commercial and military computer networks from hackers. Episode 12 of the All Points West Podcast takes us on a journey from Steve's ...
Feb 14, 2024•23 min•Ep. 12
When Sam Smith first entered the City at age 18 on the London Commodity Exchange she was one of only two women on a trading floor full of men, who would wolf whistle and had pictures of naked women on their cubicle walls. At 33, Sam became the first ever woman to run a stockbroking company, when she founded finnCap Group (now Cavendish). Her career in the City was defined by a drive to put inclusion and female entrepreneurship at the heart of the company's success. Episode 11 of the All Points W...
Jan 24, 2024•24 min•Ep. 11
Much of James Ashton's life has been about telling better stories - as a journalist, author, book prize founder, non-executive director and now chief executive of the Quoted Companies Alliance, the small and medium-sized company lobbying group. Episode 10 of the All Points West Podcast hears how a boy from West Yorkshire cut his journalistic teeth on local hospital radio before rising to the heights of The Sunday Times, Evening Standard and eventually landing in the hot seat of a City lobbying g...
Dec 20, 2023•24 min•Ep. 10
Neil Stevens and Matt Timmins are a rarity in the business world. Not only are they co-chief executive of Fintel, the AIM-listed financial technology firm, they are also lifelong friends. Episode 9 of the All Points West podcast tells the unlikely story of how two childhood friends, who grew up on the same cul-de-sac in Staffordshire and went to the same school, ended up at the same company sharing the top job. Nothing in this podcast is intended as investment advice and the people in this podca...
Dec 06, 2023•24 min•Ep. 9
Quinton van der Burgh is one of South Africa’s leading mining investors and entrepreneurs. His investment firm, Q Global Commodities, is one of Africa’s largest privately-owned commodity, logistics and investment houses, which has just taken a stake in NEO Energy Metals, the London-listed uranium miner. He enjoys a pretty glamorous, jet-set lifestyle – but it wasn't always this way. Quinton was brought up in a tough mining town near Johannesburg, where he worked long weekend hours during in his ...
Nov 22, 2023•25 min•Ep. 8
From the shop floor to the boardroom, Dr. Andy Palmer has had a career not many executives can claim. As the former CEO of Aston Martin and the current CEO of Pod Point – one of the UK's leading providers of EV charging solutions – he has centred his life around cars. Dr. Palmer is a leading voice for the move to net-zero, and a philanthropist devoted to giving underprivileged kids the same opportunities that he had. Episode 7 of the All Points West podcast takes a look at how one of the UK's mo...
Nov 08, 2023•33 min•Ep. 7
Ryan Mee is the son of a carpenter who grew up in south Birmingham. His working class roots taught him about the value of money... it also taught him how to make it. The Fulcrum Metals chief executive has come a long way since then - he is now an experienced private investor, turned entrepreneur. It may be premature to say Mee has the 'Midas touch', but he has just landed a deal to buy Tully, a gold project in Canada that he believes could be transformational for his Aim-listed exploration compa...
Oct 25, 2023•29 min•Ep. 6
Steve Quah started his own agency at 21 and is now planning events for the likes of YouTube and The Wall Street Journal . Balancing creativity with a talent for computer science and maths, the Aeorema Communications CEO credits his success to a strong work ethic and his team-focused management style. Episode 5 of the All Points West podcast takes a look at what it means to run a profitable creative services company, how to successfully open a remote office during a pandemic, and why motorcycle m...
Oct 11, 2023•23 min•Ep. 5
Ian Foley was one of those kids who would take stuff apart in order to figure out how it worked. His curiosity has served him well. Today, the Equipmake founder and managing director oversees a business that dismantles double decker buses to replace old diesel powered engines with its electric powertrain. Episode 4 of The All Points West Podcast gives you the low down on Ian’s journey from his childhood in Liverpool, to the dizzy heights of Formula One and the iconic Routemaster bus. Nothing in ...
Sep 27, 2023•25 min•Ep. 4
Chairman and CEO of zircon producer PYX Resources Oliver Hasler has taken an unconventional route to the top. He grew up in Mexico City from the age of 6, and at 22 he was an officer in the Swiss Army. Episode 3 of the All Points West Podcast will discover what that taught the PYX Resources chief executive about leadership and how his early life as an 'international foreigner' has shaped him. Hasler's passion for transforming companies has taken him all over the world, in a career that spans the...
Sep 13, 2023•20 min•Ep. 3
Episode 2 of the All Points West podcast takes us on Russell Fryer's journey, from his childhood in apartheid South Africa to the City of London... including the story of how dinner with a former director of the CIA inspired him to set up Critical Metals, plc. As the executive director of the Aim-listed strategic metals investment company, Russell has certainly had an interesting and varied 28-year career in the mining and financial sectors. Nothing in this podcast is intended as investment advi...
Aug 30, 2023•27 min•Ep. 2
The heartbeat of our economy comes from the many thousands of small and medium sized companies in every community across Great Britain. The collective market value of UK-listed small and medium sized businesses is nearly £400bn. Despite their importance to the health of the British economy, these smaller businesses rarely get the attention or credit they deserve. Former Sunday Times business journalist, Karl West, will shine a light on the issues, triumphs and tribulations faced by the entrepren...
Aug 15, 2023•23 min•Ep. 1
Meet business leaders from some of the most innovative and influential small and mid-cap UK-listed companies. Hosted by former Sunday Times business journalist Karl West, the All Points West podcast aims to learn more about how these entrepreneurs got their start, and uncover the stories behind their success. Nothing in this podcast is intended as investment advice and the people in this podcast may hold positions in the stocks they talk about. Do not buy anything based solely on a tip or recomm...
Aug 14, 2023•2 min
