Bob Woods has spent his entire career in the financial services sector. He founded wealth management and employee benefits specialist Mattioli Woods, with Ian Mattioli, in the early 1990s, taking the business from a start-up to a listing on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM), a sub-market of the London Stock Exchange. He received an MBE in 2017 for services to businesses and the community. In recent years, he has undertaken business mentoring for budding entrepreneurs and this is how he first met Joseph Eccleston.