Meet the team

Brendan McGurgan

Brendan McGurgan is a global business leader who builds profitable, scalable businesses by delivering on his strong personal belief that anything is possible. Brendan has been part of the Simple Scaling duo with Claire Colvin since 2020.

Brendan McGurgan | His Story

Over 25 years of scaling businesses

Brendan brings 25 years of experience scaling businesses. Most recently, Brendan spent 16 years as a global business leader with CDE, 12 of those as Group MD, steering the company through the global financial crisis to considerable strategic growth success with offices on 6 continents employing almost 700 people across the world (from 15) and 25X revenue growth.

He currently acts as a Non-Executive Director to CDE Asia (part of the CDE Group), a company he co-promoted in 2006. In 2019, he co-led the successful private equity funding round, which secured investment from IIFL, India’s leading integrated financial services group, to support the company’s future growth ambitions throughout the Asia region.

In 2016, he was awarded the Institute of Directors UK Young Director of the Year and Overall Director of the Year. An avid sportsman and advocate of self-leadership through good well-being practices, Brendan is also a Wim Hof Method instructor.

Brendan McGurgan - Co-Founder of Simple Scaling

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ScaleX™ THINKING

Brendan McGurgan’s most recent articles

ScaleX Elevate Blog

Scaling Definition: What Scaling Is and Why You Should Know It.

Defining Scaling Beyond Growth What is the scaling definition, and why is it crucial for…

Blog

ScaleX: The Proven Framework for Scaling with Purpose

Scaling a business is an ambition shared by many SME leaders, but few have a…

News

Top entrepreneur to speak at global scaling summit’s return to Belfast

Daniel Priestley to address ScaleX™ Summit and help SME owners elevate their businesses.

SIMPLE Scaling™

The Book

Reviewed 4.8/5

10 Proven Principles to 10x Your Business

This comprehensive, down-to-earth guide will walk you through each stage of the scaling process in one elegant, integrated framework, showing you how to overcome all the challenges you’ll meet along the way.

ScaleX™ INSIDER PODCAST

Brendan’s Favourite Episodes

Here are some episodes which Brendan particularly enjoyed from over the years.

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SEASON 10 – EPISODE 12

Philip McKernan - Speaker, Writer & Filmmaker

SEASON 10 – EPISODE 9

Alex Osterwalder – How to create products and services customers want (Part 1)

SEASON 8 – EPISODE 1

Mark Divine - Founder & CEO, SEALFIT

SEASON 9 – EPISODE 1

Susie Ma - Founder - Tropic Skincare

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