Ben MacLehose attended Rugby School in Warwickshire before graduating at the University of Strathclyde in business law and politics, and then qualifying as an accountant.

A cricket lover and member of the prestigious Marylebone Cricket Club, he spent several years working in insolvency and restructuring, first with advisory Kroll and then successor Zolfo Cooper.

No expectation

“I had no expectation of joining Denholm,” MacLehose says.