Are you ready to take your business forward?
As time pressured business leaders, how do you consistently enhance value, drive new growth or prepare to exit whilst focusing on day to day survival?
90% of growth stage businesses fail to achieve their revenue targets
85% of growth stage businesses fail because funding runs out
75% of investor backed growth businesses never return cash to investors
Bowthorpe can provide the expertise to help you maximise your business’s value.
The Ambitious Businesses We Support
Investor Backed
Businesses that require operating expertise to invoke change and drive shareholder value through to exit.
Founder Led
Dynamic businesses where founders require support and experience to achieve their aspirations.
Family Owned
Family run businesses that require extra resource, guidance, or support to maximise their potential.
Our Three Levels of Service Delivery
solutions
Providing the executive board with a strategic assessment of the business. Setting a plan to drive growth and/or exit.
implementation
Implementing the strategy and building the team to deliver against critical value creation milestones.
Transaction
Preparing the business for M&A, identifying purchasers and negotiating the deal terms to benefit all stakeholders. Raising capital externally or through our own proprietary vehicles.
Are you ready to take your business forward?
Our Executive Team
Jerry Biggs
Managing Partner
Jerry is a seasoned business leader and investment professional. He has expertise in the transformation of growth stage companies through commercial leadership, performance enhancement and change management. As an investor, Jerry has managed a range of private equity funds, investing in numerous growth businesses.
He brings extensive experience of value creation, public and private fund raising, trade sales, IPOs and deal negotiation. Jerry previously had a career in global asset management & investment banking, before establishing and managing a leading corporate finance and private equity boutique. He started working life as a British Army Officer.
Jonathan Synett
Managing Partner
Jonathan is an investment professional and experienced CFO with extensive experience working with investor backed businesses. His expertise lies in the creation and execution of corporate and financial strategy and has been involved in numerous value accretive transactions from seed funding through to acquisition.
He has previously managed investment portfolios for both institutional and high net worth investors, and worked extensively in portfolio companies as both a CFO and COO. He has an MBA from INSEAD specialising in General Management and Entrepreneurship.
James Robson
Managing Partner
James is an experienced COO & M&A professional. He has led transactions (including acquisitions, disposals, carve outs, mergers & IPOs) for over 25 years in the UK, the USA, the Far East and the Asian subcontinent.
James has also worked as a lawyer, a strategy consultant, led an in-house corporate venturing team and, as the COO of an AIM listed business, was responsible for managing a range of strategy, business transformation, integration, change management and value creation projects across three businesses in four countries. James qualified as a solicitor and has an MBA from Cranfield School of Management.
Testimonials
Bowthorpe were the first investors in our business. Their help and guidance have enabled me to take the company from an academic project to a multi-asset global biotech company raising several million pounds in the process. They intuitively understand what is required to grow a business quickly, even in a tough market environment.
The team at Bowthorpe led investment into our business in 2019 and have been trusted advisors and mentors ever since. As a first time CEO they have worked closely with me on our growth strategy, acquisition plans and capital raising. It's amazing having Bowthorpe involved with the business. They bring empathy, clear heads and sound advice.
Bowthorpe have been trusted business advisors to our family over the last few years and been there for all the ups and downs of our business growth story. They have helped us develop a commercial and fundraising strategy, enabling us to raise both debt and equity and begin selling our products internationally.