ONSIDE / INTERVIEW
DO SOMETHING,
MAKE A DIFFERENCE
Bob Holt speaks to Onside magazine about his values
and business management style - applied successfully
to business and his own charitable foundation.
B
ob Holt doesn’t like to hang about, he describes his
business style as “foot down, get on with it.”
It’s a principle that works as well for him in his successful
career in business, building up Mears Group PLC to become
the leading player in facilities management, supporting the
social housing and public services, through to his role as a “Ian’s phenomenally well known and well respected as a key
director of Seneca and an active investor.
part of the success of Manchester as a centre for capital
markets and finance. The key to our relationship is total
Bob first met Seneca founder Ian Currie in the 1980s when trust. I don’t question, I say yes. There are very few people
he was chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. I can say that about and very few I would trust my financial
They worked together on a public company they bought and business life to. He’s a kind and generous man and I
together. In the dotcom era they floated a few businesses value his opinion.”
and when he needed someone to float his constructi