Kevin Hague Email & Phone Number

Edinburgh, Scotland, Gb

Scotland, United Kingdom

Highland Broadband Group is an established broadband infrastructure provider to rural communities and small towns across Scotland. The company closed a £25m fund-raise in January 2022 with a £20m cornerstone investment from the Scottish National Investment Bank, with a further £20m funding secured from the Bank in April 2023. The Group is investing over £100m to deploy full-fibre broadband to over 100,000 premises in rural communities and small towns in Scotland.

Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland

Founder and CEO. Exited via a successful MBO in 2020; returned as non-exec Chairman in 2023.

Founder of this think tank which stands unabashedly for the view that more unites than divides the people of the UK.We seek to encourage well-informed and civilised debate.

East Lothian, Scotland

A community led buyout of Speedy & Fawn woods - preserving native woodland for the benefit of the local community, with backing from the Scottish Land Fund, East Lothian Council, Fallago Rig and local volunteers

Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland

Founding partner of successful 'dot-com' business which sells pet products primarily to UK consumers.Part of M8 Group, ranked in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 in November 2010 as one of the UK's fastest growing profitable private companies.

Livingston, West Lothian, Scotland

Founding partner of a successful dot.com business which sells Garden Furniture and Gardening Products to the UK consumer market.Part of M8 Group, ranked in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 in November 2010 as one of the UK's fastest growing profitable private companies.

Regular "Thinking Allowed" column commentating on Scottish politics and economics

London, United Kingdom

Represented the majority investor and helped guide this fintech business through a period of significant change.

Endura designs and manufactures high performance cycle clothing.Provider of clothing to Movistar, the world's top-ranked cyling team.Winner of the 2013/2014 HSBC Global Connections competition for small and medium-sized businesses.Ranked in the Sunday Times Fast Track 100 in November 2010 as one of the UK's fastest growing profitable private companies.

I was briefly engaged with Itim to help advise the Group board on the development of the retail consulting business.

Advised large companies on new business venture creation. Founded www.bettercaring.co.uk, a JV with TSO/Apax partners: since successfully sold venture to OLM Systems

I spent 10 years at OC&C acting as an advisor on strategic issues to a broad range of companies (many FTSE 100) across a variety of industry sectors. Having joined as a graduate I was promoted to partner in record time and became Finance Director whilst continuing to be a full time consulting partner.

Beng: Top First, Mechanical Engineering, First Class Honour

Education record