Brad Burton

Brad Burton was born in Salford, Manchester and was brought up singlehandedly by his mother after his father left the family home at a very young age.

After school, Brad joined a YTS (Youth Training Scheme) working on a computer support desk for a company in  Salford and then he secured what was, at the time, his dream job working in a computer games shop in The  Arndale Centre in Manchester.

Through the shop he met people connected with the games industry and talked himself into getting a job as a  games reviewer on a magazine, appearing over 50  times on TV in the early 90’s on gaming shows on Channel 4 and Sky One.

Unfortunately in 1995, two bullets shot through his bedroom window meant that his Salford home could no longer be home.The next day Brad fled to Somerset. Depressed, he ended up spending years on benefits and dabbled with drugs, before getting a job and  going on to meet a local girl whom he later married and began to turn his life around.

After a career in marketing, Brad made the decision to do something different and set up his own business. He  came up with a different and more disruptive concepts of business networking; 4Networking. His vision was to  provide a fresh way for small businesses to do business which involved community, support, fun, accountability  and which was modern, colourful, outspoken, forward-thinking and internet ready.

Brad created a culture and ethos of business networking that was 50% social, 50% business and it worked a treat and still does to this day!

4Networking now has groups across the UK, with more than 5,000 events taking  place every year. Brad stepped away from the daily running of 4Networking ten years ago, in favour of bringing in  a high-level management team, however as the founder of the company Brad is still very much the key decision maker in the direction of the business.

Brad Burton is also the author of four best-selling business and is the highest rated & reviewed  5* Amazon business author.