Gordon discards the old school tie

With a background of Scottish nobility, Eton, the guards and merchant banking, it would be easy to think of Andrew Gordon's career as a pre‐ordained success. But this 30‐year‐old managing director of a food‐to‐property company believes that you should stand or fall on ability, dismissing the old‐school‐tie philosophy of ‘it's not what you know, but who you know’. And although his Mayfair home reflects affluence, Gordon says he has no ambition to be worth ‘massive sums of money’.