Meet the Team

Bob Brown

Having spent 15 years working initially as an accountant, then in sales and export, Bob has good all round business skills. Following his departure from the engineering sector in the early 90’s, he spent a couple of years importing German wine, a business from which he then exited.

In 1994, Bob set up his own business advising on financial planning and over the past four years, he has specialised, more recently with business partner Brian Viner, in advising entrepreneurs on exit and succession planning. “We consider ourselves business doctors,” he smiles. “Much like the house doctor on TV - we do pre due-diligence work to get the business ready to be seen by potential buyers.” Bob explains that the pair takes a “people orientated approach” helping clients to identify what they are passionate about and how they particularly add value to the business so that they can maximise the impact of the entrepreneur.

Bob himself regularly travels to Canada for coaching and to learn profit improvement, motivation, team building and delegation techniques and applies these within his client companies. “Motivation is incredibly powerful,” he says. “If everyone’s motivated to achieve the same goals within a company then it’s more attractive to potential buyers.

If I had one word of advice for companies it would be think about how you want to exit as early as possible as longer term planning will maximise returns.”

Sarah Brown

Sarah is a highly successful Strategic Consultant. Former Sales and Marketing Director of DynoRod, she was responsible for radically increasing turnover and profit, and has consulted for many household names including BT, ICL and Colgate Palmolive.

Sarah is an authority on the importance of values in business, corporate responsibility and how businesses can work together. Sarah is a creative problem solver, with an ability to bring a fresh and original perspective, using quirky/witty and thought provoking insights. She is also an experienced facilitator and trainer, skilled at handling demanding audiences and inspiring people to achieve their dreams.