Robin Pilley
OwnerRobin Pilley is 56 years old and has run his own business for over 25 years. Robin initially trained as a specialist Insurance Underwriter working in London. He helped build a UK wide agency network which enabled the business to develop and grow substantially over a 5-year period resulting in a sale off over 20 million. A career break to travel around the world was followed in 1995 by Robin starting his first retail business in Children’s Nursery, and computers which developed into four retail shops. Then in 2005 the business was sold as Robin felt that growth may stall in the future as Independent High Street outlets would start to lose customers as they moved online. Robin then set up a property business called CXG. Following the increasing success of the company it won a number of prestigious industry awards, including the Financial Times Gold award and Property Sourcing of the Year at the national Landlords and Letting Show, as a consequence Robin was invited to No: 10 Downing Street, to meet the Prime Minister and is now seen as an expert in the property investment and management field and speaks at seminars and property shows.
Robin is very keen to help small businesses grow by sharing his journey, and experiences which of course have had a number of interesting and challenging highs and lows. Robin is an exciting addition to our team as we believe his expertise in developing small businesses will help Magnatech on its journey to becoming recognised worldwide for lowering both commercial and residential energy costs and assisting in its customers reaching net zero targets.
Elaine Smith
Property Investment Specialist & Lettings ManagerElaine Grubb is our property investment and lettings specialist at CXG. She has sold over 100 properties in this time to Investors and achieved yields of up to 15% which led to CXG winning ‘Property Sourcer of the Year’ 2010 and are still the current holders of this title. Elaine’s personal contribution to CXG and her inspiring story was recognised at a national level when she won ‘Women’s Property Manager of the Year 2011′. In 2012 Elaine also won Property Woman Letting Agent of the Year at the prestigious NLA awards. Elaine speaks at both property networking events and seminars throughout the UK. Elaine practises what she preaches and has built up her own personal high cash flowing property portfolio.