The focus of this company is now moving away from the motor trade and into the design and development of Eco homes. We are currently looking for suitable sites in the South Gloucestershire area.

Small business based near my home in Yate, selling Sports Cars and SUVs.

In 2011 I started a new company specialising in buying sports cars and then selling them through well established dealers. It was a very interesting business and gave me the opportunity to drive some fabulous cars.

Vivadi Ltd was a small consumer electronics business manufacturing a range of multi-room media servers to deliver music and movies all over the home from a single source. I originally founded the company to develop and launch a range of products that I had conceived when running a retail business called Paul Roberts Hi-fi, which I had set up and grown to 6 shops across the West Country selling TV & Hi-fi equipment. This business gave me the idea for a new way of manufacturing consumer electronics products that made them upgradeable and thus future-proof. I was so excited by the potential this offered that I patented the invention, sold my retail business to its General Manager, then set up Vivadi to develop and launch a range of products incorporating my patented design. It was a very ambitious vision and certainly the most challenging project I have ever undertaken. I recruited a strong team and raised several million pounds of funding and we very nearly made it a big success. Our products were critically aclaimed and achieved 5 star reviews in the specialist press, but sadly the credit crunch and recession came at just the wrong time for us and we were not able to achieve the flotation we needed to drive the business forward. As a result we had to downsize considerably to weather the financial storm and this left the business too small to be truly viable, so in the end we had to close it down. Although Vivadi never achieved the ambitious goals we set ourselves, it certainly taught me a great deal about business, product development and fundraising.