Chirag Patel: the trustee reshaping Pentland's family empire

Chirag Patel became chief executive officer of Pentland Brands on January 1, 2021, inheriting a portfolio built around swimming pools, gyms, rugby pitches and the great outdoors at the precise moment a pandemic had closed most of them. A year into the job, asked what he had learned, he did not reach for a growth metric. He reached for a distinction. There was endurance, which "can sustain us through short periods of adversity," he reflected, and then there was "true resilience, which comes from rest and being able to switch off."