As the hugely popular Growth to Gold: scaling & selling your agency event returns for 2024, we can now reveal the first set of speakers appearing at the jam-packed afternoon conference.
Hosted at headline partner KPMG‘s Leeds office on 13 November, Growth to Gold is for agency leaders at ambitious digital/ tech companies looking for insights on how to scale their businesses, perhaps want to explore a possible acquisition, or want to understand more about the path to a potential investment.
Expect to hear from Mark Mallinder, CEO at Ride Shotgun, will be hosting a dedicated session on Challenging, appraising and reinventing your current business model.
He has over 30 years’ experience working client-side, at agencies 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 nine locations in five different countries. He is passionate about alignment of business strategy, values and behaviours to improve effectiveness.
Emma Banks, CEO at ramarketing, will be one of three leaders joining a panel discussion sharing her agency insights, setbacks and successes with the audience.
Having worked in life sciences throughout her professional career, Emma Banks 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.
Mergers, acquisitions and investment takes time and planning. If you want to know more, look no further than a talk hosted by Fergus Bailie, CEO at The Bailie Group, who will be delving into what buyers and investors are looking for.
Having achieved growth in each year as the MD of CDS, Fergus Bailie 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.
With plenty of more speakers and sessions to be revealed soon, make sure you book your tickets before they go here!
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