PREXIT – Preparing for Exit
Get your business ready for exit – before the DD team arrives.
Over two decades I've founded, grown and sold consultancies and agencies. I now help founders and leadership teams prepare for a successful exit, while keeping the business healthy and the EBITDA protected.
“After far too long working with organisations who ‘decide and don't', I made the decision way back in the early 2000s to jump out of corporate life and see if I could do things differently.”
How I work with founders
Whether you're Preparing for Exit, looking to Grow, or need an advisor on your board — I bring the same founder-level experience to every engagement.
Exit
PREXIT
Preparing for exit
Prepare the business – and yourself – long before the M&A advisors and DD teams turn up. Sleep at night while protecting that precious EBITDA.
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Growth
GAP
Growth Advisory Planning
An eight-stage programme to get your business match fit – lifting the drains, protecting culture and building a company ready to grow and thrive.
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Board
NED
Non-Executive Director
A steady presence in the boardroom – challenge, perspective and hard-won experience from someone who has built, grown and sold companies.
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Two decades of building, growing and selling.
CEOs, boards, government departments, institutions, SME founders, M&A advisors, Due Diligence teams – I've sat with them all. Through recessions, credit crises, BREXIT and wars, mostly by growing. Now I bring that experience to a small number of founders and leaders each year.
20+
Years advising founders
8
Stages in the GAP model
5
Parts to PREXIT
300+
DD questions on his last sale
Thinking about exit?
Start the conversation early. Most founders wish they had. We'll talk through where you are, where you want to get to, and whether PREXIT is the right next step.