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will decide that sanity will prevail and there will still be a way of having people from overseasworkinginscotland.”

In the meantime, Mcbride is focused on the development of new products for Edesix, which supplies police forces in Abu Dhabi, Northern Ireland and South Australia, as he seeks to double its turnover from the figure of £4.2 million generated last year. That marked an increase of 50 per cent on 2015’s revenues.

He says: “The future for us is to carry on growing. We’re in a market which is pretty much open in terms of our ability to grow. We’re not just focusing on how many cameras we can sell to the police; our market is across the board.

“We’re selling to prison services, supermarkets, transportation – all of those are glo- ● Born: Dundee, 1964 ● Education: Abertay University, BSC Physics and Computer Science ● First job: Engineer at Spider Systems in Edinburgh, an early innovator in networking technology ● Car: Land Rover Defender 110 – very old and rattly but reliable, like me ● Favourite mode of transport: Flying for international or train in UK; I use both for bal markets and we have a product that we can scale to do all of that.”

The firm is backed by Panoramic Growth Equity, an investor with offices business every month ● Music: Listen to Spotify, a mixture of old stuff and new ● Reading material: Usually factual – New Scientist or business based ● Can’t live without: My laptop plus the internet ● What makes you angry: People who invade my space in airline seats and don’t seem to care about it! ● Favourite place: Yosemite National Park in California and home ● Best thing about your job: Seeing the people and the company growing in Glasgow and London that targets fast-growing UK companies. Panoramic has so far invested £1.5m via two funding rounds in 2014 and 2015 to help propel