Roger Mitchell is a Chartered Accountant from Glasgow who has worked in all areas of the finance profession, both public and private: as an auditor, CFO, corporate financier and venture capitalist. Passionate about macroeconomics and geopolitics, and with a strong background in the creative industries of publishing, advertising, music, entertainment and sport, Roger has direct experience of the era-defining companies of Sir Martin Sorrell, Robert Maxwell, Lord Alan Sugar, Rupert Murdoch, and Richard Branson. In the end of the 90s, he made his personal passion for sport a profession, becoming CEO Commissioner of a major rights holder, in British football, at its moment of explosion. He has sat at senior level in the major governing bodies like UEFA. He is an insider. He lives by Lake Como, in Italy, from where he and his wife run teh Albachiara boutique consulting firm, with a particular focus on investing in, and advising, early stage founders in sport and entertainment. He has two children, from whom he has observed the changing habits in the world of content.
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Episode 445
Roger Mitchell
The “Boomer Blues” and a Return to Faith | Roger Mitchell
Roger Mitchell is a Chartered Accountant from Glasgow who has worked in all areas of the finance profession, both public and private: as an auditor, CFO, corporate financier and venture capitalist. Passionate about macroeconomics and geopolitics, and with a strong background in the creative industries of publishing, advertising, music, entertainment and sport, Roger has direct experience of the era-defining companies of Sir Martin Sorrell, Robert Maxwell, Lord Alan Sugar, Rupert Murdoch, and Richard Branson. In the end of the 90s, he made his personal passion for sport a profession, becoming CEO Commissioner of a major rights holder, in British football, at its moment of explosion. He has sat at senior level in the major governing bodies like UEFA. He is an insider. He lives by Lake Como, in Italy, from where he and his wife run teh Albachiara boutique consulting firm, with a particular focus on investing in, and advising, early stage founders in sport and entertainment. He has two children, from whom he has observed the changing habits in the world of content.
Episode 445 is the ninth installment in the Hundred Year Pivot podcast series. In it, Demetri Kofinas and Grant Williams speak with Roger Mitchell, an entrepreneur and writer whose essay “The Answer Was Here All the Time,” published in Grant Williams’s 2025 compendium, explores faith, meaning, and the search for moral grounding in a contemporary West that feels increasingly unmoored and in epistemic freefall.
The conversation begins with a diagnosis of the cultural and spiritual malaise that seems to have taken hold of Western societies: the fraying of the social contract, the “boomer blues,” as Roger Mitchell calls them, and why life inside “the machine” leaves us lonely, angry, afraid, and in dire need of real human contact.
The second half of the episode turns to a discussion about the dangers of politicizing religion and weaponizing faith in response to growing social and existential angst in Western societies. Demetri, Grant, and Roger explore Europe’s identity crisis, the destabilizing effects of uncontrolled immigration, the cultural consequences of collapsing birth rates, the economic and social tragedy facing younger generations, and the broader epistemic collapse that has made consensus-building nearly impossible and replaced reasoned debate with a totalizing ambition for political domination.
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Roger Mitchell is a Chartered Accountant from Glasgow who has worked in all areas of the finance profession, both public and private: as an auditor, CFO, corporate financier and venture capitalist.
Passionate about macroeconomics and geopolitics, and with a strong background in the creative industries of publishing, advertising, music, entertainment and sport, Roger has direct experience of the era-defining companies of Sir Martin Sorrell, Robert Maxwell, Lord Alan Sugar, Rupert Murdoch, and Richard Branson.
In the end of the 90s, he made his personal passion for sport a profession, becoming CEO Commissioner of a major rights holder, in British football, at its moment of explosion. He has sat at senior level in the major governing bodies like UEFA. He is an insider.
He lives by Lake Como, in Italy, from where he and his wife run teh Albachiara boutique consulting firm, with a particular focus on investing in, and advising, early stage founders in sport and entertainment. He has two children, from whom he has observed the changing habits in the world of content.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
Demetri Kofinas is a media entrepreneur and financial analyst whose mission is to help uncover the hidden forces and pivotal patterns shaping our lives. His contrarian perspective and critical-thinking approach has helped hundreds of thousands of people make smarter, informed decisions. This same methodology has helped guide Demetri’s decision-making as an early-stage investor and as a creator of several innovative media properties and live events.
