Every week, we dig into the memory bank of the City’s great and good. Today, Steve Rigby, co-CEO of Rigby Group and incoming chair of Family Business UK, tells us about his career – and the current business landscape – in this week’s Square Mile and Me

CV

• Name: Steve Rigby
• Job title: Co-CEO of Rigby Group and incoming chair of Family Business UK
• Previous roles: Salesman, director, founder
• Age: 52
• Born: West Midlands
• Lives: Cotswolds and London
• Studied: Wlyde Green College
• Talents: Reading a situation and being able to plot a course that delivers outside returns
• Motto: A true leader steps out when others step back
• Biggest perk of the job: My hugely diversified role allows for mental Olympics every day
• Coffee: Decaf Americano
• Cocktail order: Zacapa rum
• Favourite book: The Road Less Travelled – Scott Peck

What was your first job?

At age 16, I started working in a menswear store selling luxury goods.

What was your first role in business?

I worked as a junior salesman at SCC, which is part of our family business. The digital solutions and services provider has transformed from a small company my father started 50 years ago to Europe’s largest private technology........

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