
The story
Mechanical engineer at 16. Banker by accident. Then a six-figure job traded for a £500 per month start up.
I joined Santander because I'd heard banks paid well. Within three years they had me training the new starts, which is when I found out I was better at explaining things than I was at anything else. Deloitte took that further: five years writing bank processes to FCA guidelines, and being the person around 200 staff came to when something got complicated.
Then lockdown, 2020. Off work, no income coming in, but a market I'd been watching since 2012 was starting to get noticed. The problem was that nobody credible was explaining it to normal, everyday people in a way they could understand. So in May 2020 I started Crypto Consultancy Glasgow from my flat, and that December I left my six-figure banking job to run it full time. Everybody I told thought I'd lost the plot, so I knew it was going to work.
Six years on it's still running. It's served thousands of clients, changed hundreds of people's lives, and it's allowed me to start and run two more businesses alongside it. I'm still the one answering the questions and dealing with clients day to day.


