Biography
Andy Scott
Andy Scott is a 2019 Sunday Times Maserati 100 Entrepreneur.
He started his career working on the door of large nightclubs aged 16. Having always possessed an entrepreneurial spirit he soon began looking at other ways to earn a living and purchased his first property two years later with £5,000 left to him by his grandmother. He made his first million aged 26 from property and has since developed a multi-million-pound portfolio of over 500 homes across the UK through his various property development companies.
His journey was not always straight forward, having lost £6 million to the credit crunch in 2008 and breaking both legs in a car accident shortly after. However, by going back to his roots and returning to the building sites, Andy was able to successfully rebuild his businesses. The prolific deal maker expanded his focus to develop hotel. leisure and bar chains, including 1 Leicester Square, the West End’s biggest venue.
Away from real estate projects, Andy’s Private Investment firm REL Capital operates a portfolio of assets under management including an Insolvency Litigation Funding business with £ 25 million of cases under management In UK, and a Turnaround Investment company based in South Florida.
Outside of work, he is a Instrument rated private pilot, passionate offshore sailor. Having grown up by the coast, he has always loved the sea and in 2005 he raced across the Atlantic in the famous 72ft ketch ‘Whitbread’ with 10 friends, which turned into a slow circumnavigation.
Since then he has restored and owned a number of large yachts including 38 metre ( 125ft ) schooner, a 20-metre classic Sangermani that sank on its moorings and ELTON a 32 metre Superyacht Racing sloop.
Andy took some time out from business, when becoming a Full-time Single Dad, he lives in Palm Beach County in South Florida and is back expanding his business interests both in the USA and UK.
