Duncan Wade

BGF is the UK and Irelands most active growth investor, backing ambitious businesses with minority investment to help them scale on their own terms. Since 2011, we have invested more than £5bn in 650+ businesses across every region and sector. Today, with more than £3.5bn in assets under management, we continue to support a range of growing companies across early-stage and growth-stage. Through our 15 offices across the UK and Ireland, were close to the businesses we back, combining local insight with national scale to build trusted partnerships with entrepreneurs and management teams. Beyond investment, our portfolio companies benefit from the expertise of our 200+ strong team, as well as dedicated value creation support spanning talent, operational expertise and our Scale community – including a network of more than 8000+ experienced business leaders, sector specialists and board-level non-executives. Learn more: BGF UK: https://www.bgf.co.uk BGF Ireland: https://www.bgfireland.ie/

Initium is a specialist corporate finance advisor, partnering with privately owned businesses up to, during and beyond a business sale transaction. We specialise in transactions with a typical deal value between £10m-£100m. Established as BCMS in 1989, we became employee owned in 2022, and rebranded as Initium in 2024. Our goal is to add exceptional value for our clients, colleagues and the wider community in everything we do, and create genuine impact beyond the deal.