Cameron has extensive experience of the financial service industry, having spent over 20 years working in a variety of roles with 3 major clearing banks. During that time he was primarily engaged in working with early stage and mature businesses, turning over up to circa £20m, and managing relationships and associated credit line requirements. In addition, he gained experience as a training facilitator delivering a variety of leadership development and training programmes to his peer group.

For the last 3 years he has operated in the world of Private Equity, initially as “Gatekeeper” of a Private Equity Fund, where he specialised in Electronics and Engineering, and more recently as Regional Director for Scotland and the North West for a Group of circa 3,500 private equity investors, based throughout Britain and Europe. He also operates his own company, specialising in assisting early stage and mature businesses to commercialise their business opportunities.

Cameron is a keen fan of football, rugby and golf – a season ticket holder at Hamilton Academicals Football Club and Honorary Vice President of Hamilton Golf Club (Captain, 2006) with a golf handicap of 7. Cameron is the father of 3 boys – Ewan (12), Ruaridh (9) and Grant (6), and has to claim stewardship of 2 rather mad flat coated retrievers.

Cameron is also an experienced after dinner speaker.

Cameron leads the Scotland Fifteen leadership coaching and mentoring group.

From Hashtags to retweets … and what we can all learn from the Porn Industry We had a really exciting business mentoring session in Scotland last week. Warren Cass, member of Footdown Cotswold Mentoring Group, came to join us and…More

Our Scotland mentoring group celebrated it’s first birthday this month in style with some lovelycake and great discussions. I was joined by group members (L-R)  June Walker, Ian Fulton, Austin Flynn, Tracey Stark and Iain Sim. We…More

Footdown’s Scotland Mentoring Group and their guests will benefit from an evening in the company of their Patron (and fellow Footdown members) James “Midge” Ure OBE, on May 23rd 2012 in Edinburgh. Taking time out from touring and…More

Scotland Fifteen Group Leader Cameron Thomson is delighted to announce the latest addition to the Scotland Fifteen Group. Nick Lyth is Director of The International Resources and Recycling Institute based in Edinburgh,  Nick brings a wealth of industry…More

With the first anniversary of The Scotland Mentoring Group approaching, Group Leader Cameron Thomson sought out the answers to some questions that he felt were key in understanding why members engage with Footdown.