Nigel Alexander Spencer Robertson (born 13 August 1962) is a successful entrepreneur

Entrepreneur

An entrepreneur is an owner or manager of a business enterprise who makes money through risk and initiative.The term was originally a loanword from French and was first defined by the Irish-French economist Richard Cantillon. Entrepreneur in English is a term applied to a person who is willing to...

, best known as the founder of Freepages Plc (now renamed http://www.Scoot.com Scoot). Nigel was included in the 2005 Sunday Times Rich List and Monaco's Rich List 2007.

Biography

Nigel is a great grandson of Austin Reed, the founder of Austin Reed Group plc, the British fashion retail chain. He attended Feltonfleet School

Feltonfleet School

Feltonfleet School is a preparatory school for boys and Girls from 3 to 13 years old, based in Cobham, Surrey-'Routefinder': 'Routefinder' is a unique tool on the Feltonfleet School website that was originally compiled by the Friends of Feltonfleet to enable parents to reach another school that...

 in Cobham

Cobham, Surrey

Cobham is a town in the Borough of Elmbridge in Surrey, England, about south-west of central London and north of Leatherhead. Elmbridge has been acclaimed by the Daily Mail as the best place to live in the UK, and Cobham is a prosperous part of the London commuter belt...

, Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

 and Canford School

Canford School

Canford School is a coeducational independent school for both day and boarding pupils, in the village of Canford Magna, near to the market town of Wimborne Minster in Dorset, in South West England. The school was founded in 1923. There are approximately 600 pupils at Canford, organised into houses...

 near Wimborne Minster

Wimborne Minster

Wimborne Minster is a market town in the East Dorset district of Dorset in South West England, and the name of the Church of England church in that town...

, Dorset

Dorset

Dorset , is a county in South West England on the English Channel coast. The county town is Dorchester which is situated in the south. The Hampshire towns of Bournemouth and Christchurch joined the county with the reorganisation of local government in 1974...

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Nigel grew up in Surrey

Surrey

Surrey is a county in the South East of England and is one of the Home Counties. The county borders Greater London, Kent, East Sussex, West Sussex, Hampshire and Berkshire. The historic county town is Guildford. Surrey County Council sits at Kingston upon Thames, although this has been part of...

 and today lives partly in Beverley Hills, Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

 and partly in Monaco

Monaco

Monaco , officially the Principality of Monaco , is a sovereign city state on the French Riviera. It is bordered on three sides by its neighbour, France, and its centre is about from Italy. Its area is with a population of 35,986 as of 2011 and is the most densely populated country in the...

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Business exploits

Nigel Robertson started his career in the advertising industry in 1981 as a media planner/buyer with Michael Bungey DFS. In 1984, he joined Television South West

Television South West

Television South West was the ITV franchise holder for the South West England region from 1 January 1982 until 31 December 1992, broadcasting from the former Westward Television studios in Plymouth, Devon.-Origins and Launch:...

 as an advertising sales executive. Subsequently, he became a director and shareholder of the advertising agency Squires White Robertson Gill plc in 1987. Four years later, he founded the directory business Freepages plc (later rebranded Scoot); the company was quoted on the Alternative Investment Market

Alternative Investment Market

AIM is a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange, allowing smaller companies to float shares with a more flexible regulatory system than is applicable to the main market....

 (AIM) in 1994. In 1998, he left the company and went to live in Monaco where he began investing in private companies while working alongside management to help them develop their businesses. A number of these companies have now been quoted on AIM, including the UK's largest online fashion and beauty store ASOS plc

ASOS.com

ASOS.com is the UK's largest online-only fashion and beauty store. Primarily aimed at 16-34 year old men and women, it offers over 35,000 own-label and branded fashion goods. Sales for the financial year ending 31 March 2011 were £339.7 million....

. In 2004, he founded http://www.bluestarcapital.co.uk Blue Star Capital plc of which he is the current chairman, and in 2005, he founded eSeekers with his Freepages plc co-founder Chris Chedgzoy. In April 2008, eSeekers launched the social networking and file sharing brand ShareNow

Izimi

-Izimi:ShareNow was launched on March 5, 2007 as "Izimi", which was a free-to-download PC software product that let users share any file with anyone else on the internet, without the viewer/recipient needing to download any special software other than a standard web browser. The software also...

(formerly izimi).