Dr Robert Kilgour

An experienced entrepreneur who founded Four Seasons Health Care, opening its first care home in May 1989 in Fife in Scotland. He left the company in early 2000 when it was the UK’s fifth largest care home operator with 101 homes and over 7,000 staff - making his final financial exit from the company in 2004. In 2004, he founded, and is Chairman of Renaissance Care which currently operates 19 care homes throughout Scotland employing almost 1,500 staff. In the same year, Robert co-founded and is still a Director of NW Security Group, video and security systems specialists. Robert is an Advisory Board Director of E2E (a worldwide community of circa 24,000 entrepreneurs), an Advisory Council Member of both The Jobs Foundation and The Taxpayers Alliance and a co-founder and Ambassador of Local Recovery - a Scotland wide campaign group of over 10,000 active supporters working at improving Scottish community facilities. Robert’s long history of involvement with Macmillan Cancer Support includes chairing an appeal that made possible the building of a hospice in Fife and personally donating the funds to enable the establishment of the first Macmillan Cancer Information and Support Centre in 2007; there are now 171 such centres throughout the UK interfacing with close to 300,000 people a year. Robert co-founded and launched The Museum of Prime Minister with historian and educator Sir Anthony Seldon and also founded the Social Care Foundation to encourage and support much needed social care reform recently appointing Damian Green as its Chairman. In 2023, he was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by the University of Stirling for his ‘outstanding contribution to entrepreneurship and philanthropy.’ Brought up in Fife, Robert now splits his time between his main home in London, where his wife Jacqueline works as a portfolio NED, and their home in Fife. robert@dow-investments.com