Gordon Macintyre-kemp

About

Gordon has a blue chip sales and marketing background gained largely in world class organisations. Starting his career at Procter & Gamble in sales and marketing he worked on the launch of Pantene, Wash & Go and Head & Shoulders. At Northern Foods PLC Gordon grew multimillion pound accounts with leading retailers. He also spent spent several years as a Business Development Consultant in the UK, Europe & Dubai. Gordon has also been a director of Glasgow Chamber of Commerce.Arguably one of Scotland most well networked business people Gordon was a pioneer of social media marketing and networking for business in the 1990’s. His social media network First Tuesday was credited with helping to revolutionise the business networking scene in Scotland.Currently the CEO of the 3,000 strong business network and think tank Business for Scotland. Gordon has appeared regularly on radio and TV as a business, political and economics commentator, written hundreds of articles for newspapers and for Scotland's leading economics and business policy blog Business for Scotland which has generated over one million unique viewers. Gordon has given evidence to Scottish and Westminster Parliamentary Committees and has led / contributed to several Thought Leadership programs such as Scottish Enterprise's "Can Do Scotland" and Business for Scotland's Vision for Scotland. Expertise: Rapid Growth OptimisationPress relations and media spokesperson Consultative sales & marketing Economic and business policySocial media marketing consultant to several major PLC companiesEmployee engagementSpecialties: * Planning high performance social media / political influencing and marketing campaigns * Implementation, coaching & training of social media marketing executives * Public speaking and TV / Media spokesperson * Economic policy analysis