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ONSIDE / INTERVIEW DO SOMETHING, MAKE A DIFFERENCE Bob Holt speaks to Onside magazine about his values and business management style - applied successfully to business and his own charitable foundation. B ob Holt doesn’t like to hang about, he describes his business style as “foot down, get on with it.” It’s a principle that works as well for him in his successful career in business, building up Mears Group PLC to become the leading player in facilities management, supporting the social housing and public services, through to his role as a “Ian’s phenomenally well known and well respected as a key director of Seneca and an active investor. part of the success of Manchester as a centre for capital markets and finance. The key to our relationship is total Bob first met Seneca founder Ian Currie in the 1980s when trust. I don’t question, I say yes. There are very few people he was chief executive of Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. I can say that about and very few I would trust my financial They worked together on a public company they bought and business life to. He’s a kind and generous man and I together. In the dotcom era they floated a few businesses value his opinion.” and when he needed someone to float his constructi