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Where: Squire Patton Boggs, 60 London Wall, London, EC2M 5TQ
When: Wednesday 11th March - 2:00pm - 6:30pm
Considering selling your business?
Seeking investment to accelerate growth?
Interested in increasing your business’s capital value?
Curious about the true valuation of your business?
This summit brings together industry leading entrepreneurs and experts to deliver practical, real-world strategies for growth and value creation, followed by Q&As with our panel of experts and guest speakers.
This is not theory, it’s real-world strategies from leaders who have built, scaled, and exited at the highest level.
Real Founders, Real Investors, Real Strategies for High-Growth Businesses.
Attendees will have the opportunity hear firsthand from Kevin Byrne, founder of Checkatrade and discover his journey to his £90m sale!
Along with Sarah Furness, Special Forces Pilot, Key Note Speaker and founder of Well Be It and our Managing Director Matthew Hayes, who will share proven insights on how to grow, scale, and future-proof your business. Each session is followed by Q&As with our panel of experts and guest speakers, giving you the chance to ask the questions that matter most to you.
Whether you’re aiming to scale faster, raise capital, or plan a profitable exit, this summit delivers the knowledge and connections to help you achieve it.
This summit is where high-growth entrepreneurs come to sharpen their edge, connect with real decision-makers, and leave with clear, actionable strategies to increase valuation, attract capital, and create powerful exit opportunities.
If you’re serious about building a valuable business, this is the room you need to be in.
What You Can Expect
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Gain actionable growth frameworks
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Understand how to prepare for investment or exit
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Connect with serious investors
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Build relationships that can unlock new opportunities
Meet The Speakers
Wanting to find out more about the speakers at this event? Take a look below and find out more information about our specialists across sales growth, people and HR, leadership, technology and more.
Kevin Byrne
Founder of Checkatrade
A senior business leader and founder of Checkatrade, one of the UK's leading platforms connecting homeowners with trusted tradespeople. He is known for driving large-scale business growth and transformation by modernising digital infrastructure, strengthening brand trust, and scaling marketplace operations in a highly competitive sector.
His influence come from his proven ability to grow trusted, high-growth digital businesses and build the systems, governance, and strategy that makes companies attractive to investors and buyers.
Kevin delivers practical, real-world insights on scaling organisations, increasing enterprise value, and preparing businesses for investment and exit.
Sarah Furness
Special Forces Pilot & Keynote Speaker
Founder of Well Be It and a former RAF fighter pilot, known for translating elite military leadership principles into practical business strategies.
She has led high-pressure operations where clarity, resilience, and decision-making were critical, and now helps founders and leadership teams build high-performance cultures that scale. Her influencer comes from her rare blend of frontline operational experience and commercial leadership development, giving her credibility with fast-growing companies.
Sarah delivers powerful, actionable frameworks on mindset, leadership, and performance that helps teams grow stronger, move faster, and lead effectively under pressure.
Matthew Hayes
Head of Sales Growth
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Champions UK plc, where he has played a key role in scaling the business into a nationally recognised, high-growth organisation that has received more than 100 awards to date including the Sunday Times fast track 100.
Matt is known for delivering capital growth for his clients through increased sales performance combined with productivity and efficiency improvements through culture, recruitment, systems and technology development. He has delivered more than £5Bn in sales growth for his clients and has been involved in more than 220 M&A deals in the last decade alone.
His influence comes from his hands-on experience growing revenues, leading high-performance teams, and creating repeatable growth frameworks that turn ambition into structured scale. Matthew delivers practical insight into how to build growth engines, strengthen leadership teams, and create operational foundations that allow businesses to scale faster and more profitably.
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Sales Growth
Champions drives sales growth by strategically focusing on key metrics such as market share, conversion rates, and margin optimisation. Our comprehensive approach involves not only expanding your market presence but also enhancing the efficiency of your sales processes to maximise conversion rates.
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People & HR
Champions' commitment to managing growth extends beyond numerical metrics to the very core of your organisation – your people. We orchestrate growth strategies by placing a keen focus on people performance, meticulously analysing and enhancing efficiency, productivity, and motivation within your team.
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AI & Technology
Champions takes a holistic approach to integrating technology into your business, leveraging the power of automation to elevate operational efficiency while concurrently enhancing speed and accuracy. Our team carefully examines your business processes, identifying opportunities where technology integration can streamline tasks and reduce manual efforts.
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Mergers & Acquisitions
Champions strategically capitalises on business growth through customised investment solutions, meticulously examining avenues to enhance access, valuation, and overall success. We understand that effective investment and exit strategies play a pivotal role in maximising the potential of a growing business.
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