Tony Banks ( businessman ) Tony Banks is a Falklands veteran and entrepreneur . He is chairman and founder of Balhousie Care Group , Scotland ’ s largest private residential care home provider . Early life and education . Born 23 October 1961 , Banks grew up in Dundee . Banks ’ father was an RAF logistics sergeant and his mother was a housewife . His first job was working as a newspaper delivery boy . He also worked as a refuse collector , a shelf stacker , an electrician ’ s assistant and a raspberry picker before leaving school at 17 to study accountancy at the University of Abertay . Military career . At University in Abertay Banks joined the Territorial Army Parachute Regiment , subsequently he abandoned his studies in order to pursue a full - time career in the Army . In 1982 , he was sent to serve in the Falklands War as part of 2nd Battalion , Parachute Regiment ( 2 Para ) . His regiment was the first battalion to land and the first to win a major battle . Banks fought at the Battle of Goose Green and during the conflict witnessed the death of one of his closest friends . After the end of the Falklands War , Banks served with the Parachute Field Ambulance service before becoming an insurance salesman . He later moved back to Scotland where he founded the Balhousie Care Group . Banks bought his first care home in 1991 , Balhousie Lisden in Kirriemuir , Angus . The Balhousie Care Group is Scotland ’ s largest private care home provider , made up of 27 care homes , employing over 1000 people . He is Honorary Colonel of the Territorial Army ’ s 71 Engineer Regiment ( Volunteers ) . In 2013 he launched a new website where people who lived through World War II can upload their personal accounts of the conflict . Residents at some of Balhousie Care Group ’ s homes have been among the first to appear on Banks ' World War II Video Memories site . Media career . In 2009 Banks appeared on the sixth series of Channel 4 ’ s Secret Millionaire in which he spent some time living on a poor estate in Anfield getting to know some of the local residents . During the programme he donated money to people he had met . He has subsequently donated to organisations that he got to know while filming , including Daisy UK , a Liverpool based organisation headed up by Dave Kelly . In 2010 , the BBC filmed a documentary entitled ‘ From War to Peace ’ , in which a film crew followed Banks on a journey to Argentina , where he had fought . Banks had left the Falklands with a war trophy which he had kept for 28 years – a trumpet taken from an Argentinean prisoner of war named Omar Tabarez . With the help of a journalist who tracked down Tabarez , Banks visited him at his home in Argentina to hand back the trumpet . In March 2012 , Banks released " Storming the Falklands : My War and After " , which charts his experiences in war , how he struggled for years with combat - related stress , and how he has just recently managed to come to terms with his experiences . Philanthropy . Banks currently serves on the board of the Scottish Entrepreneurial Exchange . He is one of James Caan ’ s Millionaire Mentors for the Entrepreneurs ’ Business Academy . Banks has won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year . He was also a finalist for Fundraiser of the year 2011 at the Daily Record Hero Annual Awards . Banks is a significant donor to Combat Stress and The Stroke Association . Balhousie Care Group also supports the Memory Box Network , a charity which aims to use online reminiscence therapy to increase the quality of life of those who live with dementia . The team is developing a website where users can view and upload content which will act as a talking point between the person with dementia and their carers and loved ones .