Boardwave Workshop: Growing your company through acquisitions, and ultimately selling successfully

Boardwave Workshop: Growing your company through acquisitions, and ultimately selling successfully

Sponsor: Frog Capital

Host: Mike Reid

At this interactive Workshop, attendees will hear from industry experts and gain detailed insight into the full cycle of growing through acquisitions and ultimately exiting as a combined group.

The session will cover:

• The current state of the M&A markets in the software related markets (volume, valuations, active buyers etc)
• Insights from an experienced CEO who has successfully led a strategy of acquiring and integrating multiple companies
• Experiences from a CEO whose company has been recently acquired

Agenda:

15:00 - Arrivals and networking

15:30 - Welcome and introduction

15:45 - State of the M&A market  (led by Raphael Grunschlag, Managing Director, Technology at William Blair)

16:00 - Buy and builds (led by Sion Lewis, CEO of Ciphr)

16:45 - Exiting well panel discussion 

17:45 - Conclusion and wrap-up

18:00 - Drinks and networking

Panellists include:

Mark Beith, Partner at Apax who focuses on minority and buyout investments in high-growth software and tech-enabled services businesses.

Matthew Elson, CEO of EVOTIX, having bought EVOTIX in 2011, Matthew has transformed this once small company into one of the leading global health and safety technology providers.

Cecile Marret, CRO at GoHenry and was integral to their acquisition of Pixpay (France) and merger with Acorns in the US.

Richard Moseley, Rapid7, who has a track record of starting and building multiple ultra-high growth businesses from scratch in SaaS, cyber security, financial & enterprise B2B software.

Sion Lewis, CEO of Ciphr, Formerly CEO at Iris, Sion has considerable leadership and management experience in growing successful SaaS businesses and ample experience in large scale growth.

Moderator: Mike Reid, Senior Partner, Frog Capital