Medco Solutions

At the start of 2020 just prior to the pandemic, two brothers Ross Robertson and Luke Robertson founded a new business that would turnover hundreds of millions in the first 2 years. In March 2020, Ross was the Principal, Global Enterprise Accounts at Unispace Global Ltd. Luke was a director of Snaffle Solutions Ltd alongside co director Daniel Reiner, Luke previously was employed for over 7 years at Office Principles Ltd, owned by Cyril Parsons, Cyril is the co-founder of Unispace Global & father of Sebastian Parsons of Sante Global LLP & formerly Unispace Global.

On the 26th March 2020, Ross & Luke incorporated a new company called Medco Solutions Ltd. The company became one of the biggest covid contract winners in the UK, awarded £772 million for PPE & Lateral Flow Tests. The company won £84 million of contracts to supply PPE within the first 3 months of incorporation, their first contract coming within 6 weeks of starting the business. After supplying the PPE contracts Medco Solutions have gone on to be awarded £688 million over four contracts to supply the FlowFlex Lateral Flow Tests by the DHSC.

We have followed Medco Solutions closely since the first contracts were revealed. The website claims they had set up as the distributor for Wingplast a Swedish gynecology consumables business. They had appointed Edoard (Eddie) Dieck as a director on 6th April 2020, he has since resigned as a director in September 2021. Eddie is the brother in law of Luke Robertson. The Wingplast site shows he is a sales representative for the Nordic Countries. Medco shareholding in 2021 showed that Ross & Luke, their wives and a Robertson family trust owned just over 95% of the business, Dieck owning the other shares.

 If you were to research Ross & Luke Robertson, looking at their profiles on Linkedin, you will find that their career history would not show Unispace, Snaffle or Office Principles. It is a question that has us perplexed! Why would someone want to change or hide their work history?

Ross Robertson on Linkedin shows that he is CEO and co founder of Medco Solutions since March 2020, prior to that he worked part time as the CEO of OGP Investments since 2010. OGP we suspect stands for Oxford Gate Properties Ltd, where Ross is a director, though this company was only incorporated in September 2020 and has yet to file any accounts. Ross did have a linkedin profile showing that he worked for Unispace Global, however that profile appears to have been deleted some time last year.

Luke Robertson on Linkedin shows that he is a COO & co founder of Medco Solutions since March 2020, prior to that he was Commercial director for APL discovery in Malmo, Sweden since 2010 (his wife is Swedish). Luke has another profile on linkedin but comes under Luke R rather than Luke Robertson, there is no mention of Medco. Though it does show him as director of Snaffle and  prior to that employed in various roles at Office Principles.

Searching companies house, show that the Robertson's are directors or ex directors of the following companies:

Current Ross Robertson
Studio Forge Ltd incorporated June 2019, alongside fellow director James Woolgar (Woolgar is the maiden name of Ross & Luke's mother)
Oxford Gate Properties Limited - as above, alongside his wife Daniela Robertson (nee Schreiner, we suspect)

Current Luke Robertson
Atwood Properties Ltd incorporated September 2020, alongside his wife Georgina Robertson (nee Dieck)

Current Ross and Luke Robertson as the only directors
Medco Solutions Ltd incorporated March 2020
Medco Biotech Ltd incorporated August 2021
Welkin Global Investments Ltd incorporated October 2021.
Hegenberger Medical Ltd incorporated December 2021

Current Ross and Luke Robertson with other directors
Meraki Global Investments Ltd incorporated December 2021,  alongside "surprise, surprise" Dean Hales (son of Plymouth Brethren church leader Bruce Hales & the brother of Gareth & Charles Hales), Lee Hazell (brother of Anthony Hazell), Myles Woodcock (son of Garth Woodcock) and the Lincoln based Bruce and Roy Haughton of the Formed Group.

Ex Directors
Snaffle Solutions - incorporated in 2016 by Daniel Reiner (also director of Bryson Products Ltd, another DHSC PPE contract winner), Luke was a director from January 2019 to July 2020. 
Zest Trading (UK) Limited incorporated in 2007, this is a fundraising company for the Plymouth Brethren Oneschool Global in Reading, formerly known at the Focus school Stoke Poges. There are many Plymouth Brethren Members listed as directors or ex directors, including Ross Robertson. Others include Stephen and Warren Parsons who are relatives of Cyril and Sebastian Parsons, Stuart and Barry Robertson who are directors of Oxford Safety Supplies, yet another PPE contract winner with Lancashire Police and cousins of Ross & Luke. Vern Woolgar who is a share holder in Sante Trading Co. Ltd (formerly Unispace Health), Laurie Pollard director of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church Ltd and also has been involved with UBT (Universal Business Team), Charles White another with links to UBT. UBT is a central buying type group for the companies ran by the Plymouth Brethren members, it is the major fundraiser for the Brethren charity, The Grace Trust which funds the Rapid Relief Team and OneSchool Global amongst others.

You will also find via companies house that Ross Robertson is a share holder in Sante Trading Co, formerly Unispace Health. The links to Unispace/Sante Global continues for Medco Solutions. Linkedin now shows Lee Hazell (brother of Anthony Hazell) as Medco Solutions, Commercial Director. It also shows Myles Woodcock (related to the Glass family of Agile Medical) as the Sales Director.

Our research as you can see shows there are many links between the directors & ex directors of Unispace Global Ltd/Sante Global LLP and Medco Solutions.

Ross Robertson
Employee of Unispace Global Ltd at the start of the pandemic 
Shareholder in Sante Trading Co. Ltd formerly Unispace Health
Director of Meraki Global Investments with Dean Hales the brother of Gareth & Charles Hales (owners of Sante Global LLP & formerly Unispace Global)
Director of Meraki Global Investments with Lee Hazell the brother of Anthony Hazell (director of Unispace Global & named in some of the Sante companies)
Ex Director of Zest Trading UK limited with Vern Woolgar a Sante Trading Co. Ltd formerly Unispace shareholder
Ex Director of Zest Trading UK with Stephen & Warren Parsons who are both relatives of Cyril Parsons (co founder of Unispace Global)

Luke Robertson
Former employee for 7 years at Office Principles the company owned by Cyril Parsons (co founder of Unispace Global) 
Director of Meraki Global Investments with Dean Hales the brother of Gareth & Charles Hales (owners of Sante Global LLP & formerly Unispace Global)
Director of Meraki Global Investments with Lee Hazell the brother of Anthony Hazell (director of Unispace Global & named in some of the Sante companies)

Medco Solutions employees include Lee Hazell & Myles Woodcock.

As we conclude the second part of Profit or Prophet Revisited, we will recap on all the main 'players' and give you a taste of Part 3, including how these companies & directors link to many more of the companies ran by members of the Plymouth Brethren Christian Church, that also won covid contracts.

Charles Hales Unispace/Sante Global LLP, son of church leader & brother of Gareth, brother of Dean
Gareth Hales Unispace/Sante Global LLP, son of church leader & brother of Charles, brother of Dean
Anthony Hazell Unispace/Sante Global LLP, nephew of Garth Woodcock, brother of Lee Hazell 
Garth Woodcock Unispace, father of Myles Woodcock, brother in law of Cyril Parsons, Uncle of Anthony Hazell 
Cyril Parsons  Unispace, father of Sebastian Parsons, brother in law of Garth Woodcock 
Sebastian Parsons Unispace/Sante Global, son of Cyril Parsons, nephew of Garth Woodcock
Ralph Green Unispace/Sante Global
Ross Robertson Medco Solutions/Unispace, brother of Luke, works with Myles Woodcock & Lee Hazell, worked with Anthony Hazell & Hales brothers
Luke Robertson Medco Solutions, brother of Ross, works with Myles Woodcock & Lee Hazell, director with Dean Hales, worked for Cyril Parsons
Dean Hales Medco Solutions, links via Meraki Global as director with Ross & Luke Robertson, brother of Charles & Gareth Hales
Lee Hazell Medco Solutions, commercial director of Medco, brother of Anthony Hazell


Contract Total for Unispace/Sante Global & Medco Solutions £1.45 billion (not including Sterilab/Sante Global contract)

The above directors have close links, many as relatives, to the following companies that won DHSC covid contracts:

Sterilab Services
Bryson Products
Ascot Signs
Carlton Packaging
Agile Medical
Inivos
Origin Packaging
Accora

In part 3 we will show how these 8 companies won a further £570 million in covid contracts and take the total to over £2 billion!