Good Business Talking Podcast How do you go about addressing housing inequality?

With Alistair Wickens – CEO and Founder of Goscombe Group

How do you go about addressing housing inequality, and in the process create over 4,400 new houses, inject £125M into the local economy, create 300 jobs for those in need and build a business with over £500M in assets and £0 debt? That’s the path Goscombe Group are on. Join me as I speak to CEO Alastair Wickens on what drove him to set and take on this challenge and how his perspective on the role of business has changed.

4 March 5, 2021

Alistair Wickens – CEO and Founder of Goscombe Group

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