Dr Robert Dow Kilgour is a business leader, property developer, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.
In 1988 Robert Kilgour established Four Seasons Health Care, opening its first care home in June 1989. When he exited the company in 2000 it was the fifth-largest care home operator in the UK with 7,000 staff and he made his final financial exit in 2004.
Robert is Founder and CEO of Dow Investments Plc and Founder and Chairman of Renaissance Care which runs 18 care homes in Scotland with 1,400 staff. He is also co-founder and Director of NW Security Group and was a founder shareholder, and eventually Chair, of Kingdom FM Radio until its sale in 2019.
Robert is an Advisory Board Director of E2E and an Advisory Council Member of the Taxpayers Alliance and the Jobs Foundation. He co-founded and is an Ambassador of Local Recovery, a non-party campaign group in Scotland, and founded Think Scotland in 2006. He also founded and chairs SBUK, a cross-party group of Scottish businesspeople opposing a second Scottish independence referendum. He recently co-founded and launched The...Dr Robert Dow Kilgour is a business leader, property developer, entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist.
In 1988 Robert Kilgour established Four Seasons Health Care, opening its first care home in June 1989. When he exited the company in 2000 it was the fifth-largest care home operator in the UK with 7,000 staff and he made his final financial exit in 2004.
Robert is Founder and CEO of Dow Investments Plc and Founder and Chairman of Renaissance Care which runs 18 care homes in Scotland with 1,400 staff. He is also co-founder and Director of NW Security Group and was a founder shareholder, and eventually Chair, of Kingdom FM Radio until its sale in 2019.
Robert is an Advisory Board Director of E2E and an Advisory Council Member of the Taxpayers Alliance and the Jobs Foundation. He co-founded and is an Ambassador of Local Recovery, a non-party campaign group in Scotland, and founded Think Scotland in 2006. He also founded and chairs SBUK, a cross-party group of Scottish businesspeople opposing a second Scottish independence referendum. He recently co-founded and launched The Museum of the Prime Minister with Sir Anthony Seldon.
Robert is an Ambassador for Macmillan Cancer Support and over the past 30 years has raised over £2m for the charity. In 2023 he founded the Social Care Foundation, a UK-wide pressure group to support and encourage social care reform.
In June 2023 he was awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Stirling for his ‘outstanding contribution to entrepreneurship and philanthropy.’
Born in Edinburgh and educated at Loretto School, Robert splits his time between London and Fife.READ MOREVIEW LESS
A leading provider of high-performance video and security systems.
My Care Staff Ltd
Founder & Director
Mar 2017
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Present
Kirkcaldy, UK
A website that will put carers and nurses looking for work directly in touch with care homes and hospitals looking for staff, thus cutting out the agencies to the financial benefit of both parties involved.
Robert was a founder-shareholder, and eventually Chairman, of Kingdom FM, Fife's local radio franchisee employing 13 staff. In 2019 he engineered the sale of the radio station to publisher DC Thomson.
CamVista Ltd
Co Founder & Chairman/CEO/Deputy Chairman
Jan 1999
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Nov 2002
CamVista is a leading webcam portal website which was sold to a large security company.
Plans are underway to create a new museum dedicated to the Prime Minister, the highest-ranking democratic office in the United Kingdom, aiming to collect and showcase items related to Prime Ministers that aren’t applicable to existing museum collections.
Independent Care Homes Scotland is comprised of over 10 care home operators. These organisations will work together to help to ensure all areas of the independent care sector are fully represented within the national public inquiry into the handling of the coronavirus pandemic.
Business and industry in Scotland are facing up to the challenges posed by Brexit. SBUK understand the importance of recasting Scotland's relationship with the EU based on free-trade and new forms of co-operation.
Established as a virtual think tank in 2006, to encourage greater discussion in Scotland about economic, social & constitutional policies – from the perspective of mainly Scottish Conservative authors.
StoriiCare understand how photographs can help to recover memories for those living with dementia. They developed a new approach to person-centred care. StoriiCare is a care management system with life stories at its core.
Borland is a privately-owned independent insurance broker, established in 1995. Borland Private Clients provides specialist insurance advice and coverage for individuals with high-end homes, valuable assets, and premium motor vehicles.
The Jobs Foundation is a registered charity working with businesses across the UK that are dedicated to providing training and jobs to those unemployed and in poverty.
E2E is a global community of over 24,000 successful entrepreneurs and creates an exchange between entrepreneurs, investors, business leaders, and professional service providers.
Robert Kilgour became Macmillan Cancer Support’s first Ambassador in December in 2018. Over the last 30 years he has helped to raise over £2,000,000 for the charity.
Robert Kilgour part funded and opened the new Macmillan Cancer Information & Support Centre in 2009 at Western General Hospital in Edinburgh. He also part funded the establishment of the first Macmillan Cancer Information & Support Centre in the UK at Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, North London in 2007.
Chaired a joint venture between Macmillan Cancer Support and Fife Health Board to raise £1m to improve hospice facilities throughout Fife. The final total raised was over £1.75m.
Former University of Stirling student, Robert Kilgour, received an honorary doctorate from the university, acknowledging his outstanding contribution to business and philanthropy.
Robert Kilgour is an Ambassador for Local Recovery, an organisation dedicated to ensuring that UK and Scottish governments prioritise local priorities as communities recover from the disruption caused by the Covid-19 pandemic.
