This week I was gonnaes guest is Martin Gilbert.

Martin Gilbert is one of the longest-serving CEOs in the ftse and co-founder of Aberdeen Asset Management. Martin calls home Aberdeen but spends his time between London and Aberdeen.

Having been born and educated firstly in Malaysia and then in Aberdeen he says this was ‘the great stroke of luck in his life’ having been born and having time in Asia, and then says it later gave him the ‘confidence to build the asset management business', which then ‘was one of the first asset companies to locate in Singapore in the early 90s’.

Martin observes from his education that he finds it interesting ‘that the (academic) B class pupils at school often end up employing the(academic) A class pupils in business’.

Martins’ advice to any student or new entrepreneur is ‘that it better to try and fail than never to try at all’ and ‘wishes more people would set up their own businesses'.