When Paul Kilbride got his first job working in a Bristol bookshop, he couldn’t have guessed that more than 40 years later, he would be at the helm of a £250million business and counting.
The chairman and chief executive of the Troy Group, this year nominated for Large Business of the Year in the Western Morning News Business Awards, didn’t go to university and says he has had only three jobs in his life.
But his business-building career has taken him all over the world and for the past 12 years he has been riding a wave with Troy UK, one of the biggest industrial engineering suppliers in the UK.
