Events and masterclasses

Roadmap to exit: prepare your business for sale

You’re thinking of selling your business. Your hard work and years. A high valuation is non-negotiable, but to get it you need to prepare.

Our industry-leading panel of speakers reveals:

• What buyers actually want
• How buyers try to minimise what they pay
• What happens after you hire a broker
• How to get your business exit-ready
• Identify why growth stalls
• Escape a feast and famine sales cycle
• How to triple your value

Angie Moxham

Founder and CEO of integrated comms agency The Fourth Angel, Angie has owned, run and sold two award-winning agencies – Le Fevre Communications and 3 Monkeys. In a frank and honest chat, Angie will share her experience of selling to a male-founded business, completing a sales process during a divorce and the impact of the menopause on female leaders.

Jo Royce

Head of People, Culture and Capabilities and 2Y3X at agency Agency Ventures Aggregator (AVA), Jo has headed digital agencies Glue Isobar and Possible. She is an expert on the critical people-side of selling a business. Jo will share her deep experience of people strategy, focusing on how leadership lessons have set women back, including the perils of imposter syndrome and ‘Fake It to Make It’.

Felix Velarde

• Agencies founded: 6
• Agencies sold: 8
• Agencies acquired: 13 (and counting)

Felix has helped many of the UK’s leading agencies achieve extraordinary exits through the 2Y3X programme and his business book Scale at Speed. Now on the buyer side, as co-founder of AVA Acquisitions, he is uniquely positioned to share his wisdom on both sides of the sales process.

What you’ll take away

You will leave with a fresh understanding of how to take your business to exit; insider tips on dealing with buyers; and the confidence to take the first steps towards preparing your business for sale.

Keywords: selling your agency, maximum value

When: March 8th, 2023, 10:00 – 12:00 BST
Where: Century Club, Soho, London