About Ozboz

Not a consultant who's read the books. Someone who's done the job.

Iain Russell has spent his career building and running businesses — not advising from the sidelines.

He's held a £20m P&L as Operations Director at a major national company, accountable for eight service centres and more than 230 staff. He took on a PE-backed business as Managing Director when turnover was sitting at £950k and drifting; fourteen months later it had crossed £1.7m — not through luck, but through a clear plan, a team that understood what they were working towards, and decisions made on evidence rather than instinct.

He has also founded, built, and profitably sold a business of his own — started from scratch during a global pandemic, when almost nothing about the timing made sense.

He has made payroll decisions. Led teams through genuine uncertainty. Sat across the table from investors, boards, and banks. He knows what accountability feels like as a daily reality rather than a management concept.

Before all of that, he spent 24 years as an engineer in the Royal Navy, where he learned to lead under pressure and stay composed when the stakes were high. It's a useful foundation. But it's the years of running real businesses that a client feels day to day.

Today, Iain works with growing businesses in three ways:

As a fractional or interim Operations Director — coming in a day or two a week, or on a focused interim basis, to get operations working properly. For businesses that need serious operational leadership but can't yet justify a full-time hire.

Through professional video and content production — telling a business's story on camera, from founder films to client interviews, as a standalone service through the Ozboz film team.

As a broader business advisor — strategy, marketing and commercial growth for founders who want a hands-on thinking partner who's actually done it.