Andrew Jamieson

I was born in Glasgow but spent much of my childhood growing up in Cyprus — or, as my friends put it, distilled in Glasgow, matured in Cyprus. It’s where my love of Manchester United began, where my parents live now and where I learned that I’m solar-powered. Cyprus and Fig Tree Bay are places I never really stop thinking of as home.

I moved to Edinburgh in my late teens with ambitions of becoming a professional golfer. There, I started taking physical training very seriously because I wanted to get better at golf, but somewhere along the way became far more fascinated with training itself — and then nutrition and human behaviour. Eventually, I had to concede that I probably wasn’t going to be the next Tiger Woods.

So I changed direction.

In 2011, I moved to London to learn my new craft – 1:1 Personal Training – spending roughly five brilliant years there, studying and working (and partying) my way through everything I could get my hands on — from exercise mechanics and rehabilitation to nutrition, lifestyle management and psychology. I learned from systems and organisations including Resistance Training Specialist (RTS), Precision Nutrition, Poliquin and Muscle Activation Techniques (MAT), and worked with a lot of special people.

Glasgow called me home and I opened my own gym in 2015 — my first proper business.

It was a rollercoaster.

I learned plenty about personal training, but considerably more about business — much of it the hard way.

Then Kevin Ashcroft, who became my business mentor, came along. With his guidance, I started learning another new craft: how businesses actually work. I learned in the trenches, eventually closing the gym and going to work alongside Kevin for a year.

This phase changed the direction of my career.

In 2021, I began working with Dr Lauren Medical Aesthetics. And what started as helping another founder grow her business gradually became the blueprint for what I wanted to spend the next chapter of my working life doing.

Today, that’s Ground Floor Group.

I can now see my career shaping up into three broad epochs:

Body → Business → Backer

Body was where I started — learning how people work and how to help them change.

Business is where I am now — building companies and working alongside ambitious founders.

Backer is where I’m going — using the experience and capital accumulated to back exceptional people and ideas.

I still train religiously, follow United as fervently as ever and, after many years away from the game, I’ve fallen head over heels with golf again.