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Episode 25 - Sascha McDonald from 2022-04-04T10:15

This week's episode has a very antipodean feel as our Australian host, Bryan, chats with another native Australian, Sascha McDonald. Sascha was a Founder and Non-Executive Director of Testing Pe...

Episode 24 - Norbert Horvath from 2022-03-14T09:24

In Episode 23, we spoke to Charlie Cadbury of Say It Now on the acquisition of Get Started. In this episode, we get a view from the other side of that deal with our guest Norbert Horvath, the CE...

Episode 23 - Charlie Cadbury from 2022-02-14T12:04

Our intrepid hosts are back!  In this episode Bryan and Caroline chat with Say It Now Founder, Charlie Cadbury.  If you've ever asked Alexa, Siri or Google a voice question, you'll be familiar w...

Episode 22 - Jorge Juettner from 2021-11-29T10:04

Joining our hosts this week is Jorge Juettner.  Jorge was a self-described 'happy banker' at J.P Morgan before he decided to take the plunge to become Head of Partnerships at Ritmo, a company re...

Episode 21 - Nishant Varma from 2021-11-15T09:31

Our snacking chatters are back after a brief hiatus to talk with Nishant (Nish) Varma from Safe Obstetrics.  Nish chats about the groundbreaking medical device, the Fetal Pillow®, his father dev...

Episode 20 - Michael Holmes from 2021-09-06T10:26

This week our hosts are joined by Michael Holmes. Michael is the Chief Commercial Officer at Scale Space, Scale Space is a scale up community located in London and Nottingham designed  specifica...

Episode 19 - Jon Dawson from 2021-08-09T10:32:40

Joining Caroline and Bryan this week is Jon Dawson who heads up the Creative, Media and Technology team at haysmacintyre, an award winning firm of chartered accountants and tax advisors. Jon oft...

Episode 18 - Al Zucker (Part 2) from 2021-07-26T09:27

This is Part 2 of a two part podcast. We continue our conversation Al Zucker, General Counsel at Heroes. He talks about share deals versus asset deals and which type the Heroes team prefers, and...

Episode 17 - Al Zucker (Part 1) from 2021-07-12T10:08

This week we are joined by Al Zucker who is the General Counsel for Heroes. Heroes acquire Amazon FBA businesses. In his role, Al is involved in multiple deals from smaller-sized acquisitions ri...

Episode 16 - Charlie Blair from 2021-06-28T10:20

Bryan took some well-deserved time off recently, so co-hosting this week is Caroline's colleague Alexander Lamley.  As Alexander does a lot of work on options schemes, we invited this week's gue...

Episode 15 - Riccardo Bruni from 2021-05-24T11:56:38

Joining us this week is Riccardo Bruni of Heroes (www.makeheroes.co). Heroes is a serial acquirer, building a portfolio of category-leading Amazon market...

Episode 14 - Sheetal Mehta Walsh from 2021-05-10T13:19

During the dot.com boom, today's guest Sheetal Mehta Walsh told Bill Gates exactly what she thought!  He gave her a mission and with luck, hard work and some wonderful mentors, Sheetal started t...

Episode 13 - Giles Thomspon from 2021-04-26T12:28

This week, Giles Thompson joins Bryan and Caroline to chat about his experience as a lawyer and his skills with the Ctrl. F keyboard function. Sensing that there was a better way to do things, G...

Episode 12 - Tong Gu from 2021-04-12T11:56:14

Joining our hosts this week is Tong Gu. Tong is currently an Investment Lead at Accelerated Digital Ventures, where she looks for investment opportunities in AI and machine learning. Before join...

Episode 11- Sam Smolkin from 2021-03-22T12:06

We're venturing into the world of legal tech this week with our guest Sam Smolkin, Founder & CEO at Office & Dragons. Sam chats about how pulling all-nighters as an M&A lawyer inspired him to la...

Episode 10 - Edward Lea from 2021-03-08T13:11

This week our hosts snack and chat with Ed Lea, CTO of Charge Fairy, whose mission is to get easy access to electric vehicle charging. Ed chats about how he started out building apps, creating a...

Episode 9 - Justin Gaynor from 2021-02-22T15:31

We are joined this week by a more professional snacker, Justin Gaynor. He explains how, after a disappointing encounter at Oddbins, he relaunched his career.  He ended up hosting his very own snack...

Episode 9 - Justin Gayner from 2021-02-22T14:31

We are joined this week by a more professional snacker, Justin Gayner. He explains how, after a disappointing encounter at Oddbins, he relaunched his career.  He ended up hosting his very own sn...

Episode 8 - Douglas Brown from 2021-01-11T12:06

Our guest this week is Douglas Brown, who sold his business Star Net Geomatics to an international buyer.  He discusses the journey to successfully sell his business, which included a 3.5 hour c...

Christmas Special from 2020-12-18T09:27

A festive special full of seasonal snacks and surprise guests! 

Music: Christmas Spirit by Shane Ivers - https://www.silvermansound.com

Christmas Spirit is licens...

Episode 7 - Alex Hawes from 2020-12-14T11:48

This week our intrepid hosts chat with Alex Hawes from Risk Capital Advisors, who explains all about M&A insurance, warranties, indemnities and mitigating risks involved in M&A transactions. He ...

Episode 6 - Charlie Hodges from 2020-11-30T12:42

Joining us this week is Charlie Hodges, Managing Director at Augusta & Co., an independent London-based specialist financial advisory and investment house serving the European renewable energy s...

Episode 5 - David Nix from 2020-11-16T13:27

In this episode, we chat with David Nix, Managing Director at Ready4Retirement.  David has a view from both sides of the M&A equation, having sold his business and then bought it back.  

Episode 4 - Nick Wallis from 2020-11-02T12:26

Nick Wallis from the deal advisory team at Gerald Edelman chats about the deal negotiation process and how to best prepare your business to maximise saleability and value.

Episode 3 - Neil Norman from 2020-10-19T13:06

This week, our hosts are joined by Neil Norman from Chiene & Tait's entrepreuneurial tax department.  He outlines some of the tax pitfalls to avoid when setting up and planning to sell your comp...

Episode 2 - Aundrea Insinna from 2020-10-05T12:57

In this episode, we hear from Aundrea Insinna who built a thriving business from scratch through to its ultimate sale in 2019.  Aundrea discusses how her business got started thanks to the SARs ...

Episode 1 - Stuart Hendry from 2020-09-21T16:15:09

In our first Snack & Chat episode, hosts Bryan Shaw and Caroline Urban are joined by MBM's co-founder, Stuart Hendry, to learn about how the firm was started and how he works with entrepreuneurs...