Ian Merricks, Fbcs Frsa Email & Phone Number

London, GB

VenturePath is the phenomenal membership-based community of the UK's most ambitious venture-backed tech scaleup founders (£1-20m+ revenue). It provides these entrepreneurs with access to £7bn+ of growth capital (typically in £2-20m rounds) from the UK's leading Series A-B VCs, plus the exact network, knowledge, peer support and on-demand business growth.

London, GB

An investment advisory boutique, specialising in advising growing businesses (£3m+ revenue) on their commercial and corporate finance strategies. At WHC, I bring expertise in developing successful investment strategies for high growth businesses, turnarounds / restructuring, and market consolidation (M&A) strategies.White Horse Capital exclusively delivers.

The ScaleUp Accelerator is our proven Investment Readiness sprint format.Over a six week period we work intensely with growing tech companies (£1m+ revenue) to help them prepare for high growth and VC funding. Investor documents, investor proposition and investor mindset. Delivered by exited entrepreneurs and supported by the VC community. We have worked.

London, England, GB

The Accelerator Network (www.TheAcceleratorNetwork.com) pioneered a range of tech startup and scaleup support programmes and initiatives. It earned its place at the centre of the UK tech scene, by creating one of the first accelerators in the UK (www.AcceleratorAcademy.com) and the first pre-accelerator in the UK (www.FFWDProgramme.com), and the first.

The Accelerator Academy (www.AcceleratorAcademy.com) was launched before accelerators were common and was built to address the challenges I had faced building and securing investment into my own startups. A training, mentoring and investment programme for ambitious entrepreneurs and high growth early stage businesses. A 12 week part time syllabus, with.

Fast Forward Pre-Accelerator (www.FFWDProgramme.com) began as an EU backed initiative operated by The Accelerator Network with leading universities (UCL, City University London, Westminster, Loughborough University) to support up to 100 early stage tech startups each year, with industry coaching / bootcamps, culminating in pitches to the UK's leading.

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Ex-media owner alliance, developing a new type of B2B media agency and consultancy practice, focussed on profit improvement. Working with a range of clients (Malaysia Government, Fosters/Heineken, Zenos IT, Outsourcery) looking to achieve more from their customer acquisition and relationship management activity, and wanting their trade marketing to be more.

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Invested in, restructured, managed and expanded the business over a 5 year period, overseeing new opportunities, new talent hires and new ways to deliver its student / youth communications consolidation strategy with greater efficiency. Active across retail publishing, content creation & syndication, digital media, and outdoor advertising. First mover in.

The Student Planner was struggling in late 2001. Following an MBI in early 2002, I returned the business to profitability through changing the underlying business model, revenue diversification and agressive sales growth. A management team was recruited in late 2002 and over the next 4 years we acheived a market leading position in contract publishing in.

London, England, GB

Responsible for identifying and executing acquisition opportunities for the consumer media division, and involved in bidding for new radio licenses from the Radio Authority / Ofcom.

Radio development consultancy business which I founded to set-up radio stations and advise on commercial strategy. At MRCM I produced an operations manual and built a franchise-style network of radio consultants, focussed on delivering commercial success for small-scale radio stations. Gained expertise working with youth radio brands including Galaxy, MTV.

London, England, GB

Recruited directly by Kelvin MacKenzie, my role was to build a direct sales function for national radio station; talkSPORT. This was a departure away from Impact, the group's sovereign agency sales house, and during my consultancy period I was responsible for building a direct sales force and driving £1m of new business, to exceed £13m in annual revenue.

Worked across various music industry functions, including local, regional and national record promotion (plugging), artist management and live promotion (touring) and A&R projects with IPC. Enjoyed working with amazing talent including The Freestylers, Blameless, Republica, Skunk Anansie on tours and record promotion.

Gained a good grounding in the music industry working for a Midlands-based record label and promotions business. Focussed on building the media profile of internationally licensed artists across UK media.