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Growth to Gold: scaling & selling your agency

Our popular event returns to Leeds to help ambitious agencies scale their businesses effectively. Join us for some incredible speakers and the chance to meet peers from across the industry!

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This half day conference is for owners and senior managers of ambitious agencies and digital/tech companies that are planning to scale their operations and/or seek to create new revenue streams and reimagine their core operations. 

Our nine outstanding speakers sharing their expertise and experiences include: IDHL, Summit, The Data City, Rise at Seven, Ride Shotgun, ramarketing, Kinesso, McCann World and the conference chair Richard Gregory, founder of AgencyNXD. 

If you’re reviewing your commercial model or are keen to explore additional ways of driving existing and new sales, considering how to maximise your employee engagement, exploring a possible acquisition or would like to understand more about the path to a potential investment into/sale of your agency or if you’re simply in need of a bit of some added inspiration on your journey to grow your agency – this is the event for you.

Agencies and digital/tech companies now operate in an increasingly mature market and there is a perpetuating myth that agencies, particularly digital ones,  are easy to sell and scale.  The reality is quite different and it takes imagination, radical strategic thinking and serious planning to realise these ambitions!

Join us for this special and hugely popular Prolific North conference with a packed agenda featuring nine outstanding speakers with great pedigree in scaling, buying and selling agencies.

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Agenda

13:30
Arrival & networking
14:00
Welcome from your event hosts

- David Prior, Editor at Prolific North
- Richard Gregory, Founder at AgencyNXD

14:05
Challenging, appraising and reinventing your current business model

- Mark Mallinder, CEO at Ride Shotgun

14:35
Incentivising your key employees. A high level examination of the most effective and practical ways to attract, retain your key staff/colleagues

- Ben Turner, People Director at IDHL
- Martin Corcoran, CEO at Summit Group

13:10
Mergers, acquisitions and investment takes time and planning. What buyers and investors are looking for

- Fergus Baillie, CEO at The Baillie Group

15:45
Networking break
16:10
Planning ahead, managing risk and realising opportunity

- Richard Gregory, Co-Founder at AgencyNXD
- Carrie Rose, CEO at Rise at Seven
- Maibritt Olesen, Client Director at Verlingue

16:40
Panel Discussion

Our penultimate session sees three leading agency figures share their thoughts, insights and scars with the audience, as well as ample opportunity for Q&A.

- Chloe Hawking, CEO at Kinesso UK&I
- Alex Craven, CEO at The Data City
- Emma Banks, CEO at ramarketing

17:30
Final conclusions and key takeaways
17:40
Networking & drinks recepetion

Speakers

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Richard Gregory
Co-Foudner
AgencyNXD
Richard is co-founder of AgencyNXD as well as an advisor and NXD to multiple tech firms and agencies, including Clicktech, Fluid Commerce and Ruler Analytics. Heralding from “Silicon Ramsbottom” he is an ardent supporter of the digital and tech industry in the North of England Previously, Richard was the managing director of digital agency Latitude, director of Tech North and co-founder of SAScon.
Emma Banks
Emma Banks
CEO
ramarketing
Having worked in life sciences throughout her professional career, Emma has scaled businesses through change, navigated organisations through difficult times, and mentored and coached young people who are now key leaders within their own professions. Under Emma’s leadership, ramarketing has grown 400% to more than 80 people in the last five years and helped the agency to secure a private equity partnership with NorthEdge in 2022.
Mark Mallinder
Mark Mallinder
CEO
Ride Shotgun
Mark has over 30 years’ experience working client-side, agency and as a business owner. Ride Shotgun is now one of the fastest growing independent agencies in the UK, having initially been formed in 2021 by a merger of Cry Havoc and Born+Raised and subsequently completing 3 further acquisitions, with annual revenues currently tracking £15m with 9 locations in 5 different countries. Mark is passionate about alignment of business strategy, values and behaviours to improve effectiveness.
Chloe Hawking KINESSO UKI CEO
Chloe Hawking
CEO UK & Ireland & President EMEA
KINESSO
Chloe is CEO of UK & Ireland and President EMEA of KINESSO, IPG Mediabrands’ tech-driven performance marketing agency. One of the largest digital agencies in the EMEA region, employing over 1,400 people, as President, EMEA, Chloe is focused on ensuring KINESSO’s services are fit and future proofed to match clients’ existing and emerging needs, and the award-winning KINESSO team is thriving.
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Alex Craven
Co-Founder & CEO
The Data City
Alex Craven has been at the forefront of digital innovation since founding a digital agency in 1999 and exited in 2018. Now, as Co-Founder and CEO of The Data City, he continues to drive change, using machine learning to map the global economy for both government and the private sector. Under Alex’s leadership, The Data City is revolutionising industrial classification, liberating businesses from outdated systems like SIC codes.
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Fergus Bailie
CEO
The Bailie Group
Having achieved growth in each year as CDS MD, Fergus took responsibility for all Group activities as Bailie Group CEO in 2017, having restructured the Group to put independent MDs and Operating Boards in place. Under his leadership the Group has grown from £15m to £60m turnover and employs 450 people across the UK.

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Sponsored By

KPMG
Headline partner - KPMG
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Event co host - AgencyNXD
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Session sponsor - Verlingue
Start: November 13, 2024 1:30 pm
End: November 13, 2024 7:00 pm

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KPMG Leeds

KPMG Leeds, Sovereign Street, Leeds, UK

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