Business Valuation

Rob is a forward-thinking CIMA qualified Management Accountant. He has both founded and taken over existing businesses, as well as invested in a number of start-up companies. Rob’s passion is to help SMEs and entrepreneurs to move their business forward by providing flexible access to excellent strategic advice and guidance.

He has worked with a range of SME companies helping them overcome challenges and enhance business performance to take them to the next level.

At Evoke Management, Rob has grown a team of experienced portfolio Finance and Commercial directors who work on a part-time basis with companies to add value to the senior team by plugging a knowledge or skills gap. Rob has a hands on approach to keeping involved and remains engaged with all the Evoke clients that his team supports.

Rob also brings like minded business owners and founders together through his business International Leaders UK, where they learn from each other, as well as a community of trusted advisors and experts. In 2022, Rob started the Move Your Business Forward Podcast with a focus on sharing business insights and entrepreneurs’ stories to help inspire, encourage and educate others on moving their business forward.

When he’s not working, Rob loves spending time with his family, and can often be found near or on water – he’s a passionate Yachtmaster, partial to both sailing and motorboats.

David is a serial entrepreneur with over 30 years’ experience of starting and growing SME businesses, leading to successful exits to organisations such as Trader Media Group (AutoTrader).

His love of business began in his teens, as the UK national winner of the Young Enterprise Business Competition, before going on to head companies primarily specialising in sales and marketing.

He has a hands on, friendly approach, with a ‘been there, done that’ attitude and now thrives on helping other business owners realise their ambitions.”

Hugh is a senior finance executive and CIMA Fellow with over 30 years of experience in financial management in a US Fortune 500 MNC, at both a national and international level in Europe, the Middle East, the Americas and Asia.

Hugh is commercially focussed and is recognised for a proven track record of effective business partnering, complex large project evaluation and implementation (including capital projects, M&A and disposals, Sale of Equipment and Services), risk assessment, contract structuring, operational strategy development, data-driven operational financial analysis skills and change management.

Hugh possesses highly transferable talents in governance, business solutions, business planning, value-added partnerships and leadership. He has a hands-on approach to problem-solving, combined with an effective interpersonal communication style, adept at working in a multi-disciplinary environment. He is also an experienced member at BOD level of both Joint Venture entities and wholly-owned entities.

During Hugh’s career as a finance executive, he has gained broad M&A project experience in a variety of businesses and geographical regions within the world. This spans across numerous multi-million dollar deals, involving both the acquisition of companies and assets and the forming of Joint Ventures, but also with the exits/disposals of operations.

Hugh’s in-depth experience of M&A covers the full process, including target identification, due diligence, financial modelling, synergy planning, risk assessment, contract negotiations and post-acquisition integration and assessment of post-acquisition ‘lessons learned’.

Hugh’s success is evidenced by delivering on exceptional multimillion dollar profitable growth through large investment projects, operational management and effective implementation of structural change. He excels at aligning core business, revenue, and earnings growth goals to enhance performance.

Marcus is a strategic, commercially minded business leader with a passion for innovation and change. He has gained extensive experience from his time working with NasDaq 250 and FTSE 100 companies in the digital, creative and marketing services, retail, eCommerce and financial services sectors.

Throughout his career, Marcus has led successful change implementation programs including extensive and complex financial systems, regulatory compliance programs and business reorganisation activities. He is fully conversant with International Accounting Standards, ISO compliance, Basel, Sarbanes-Oxley and multiple ERP implementations.

Marcus has led multiregional teams across Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific and his infectious enthusiasm makes him an ideal fit for entrepreneurially minded environments. 

Most recently he has successfully listed a start-up on AIM and secured a Series B investment round for a boutique marketing and communications business in the healthcare sector. 

Keith is a highly regarded Finance and Commercial Operations Director, offering businesses knowledge and experience gained from his notable media background. His creative calling motivated Keith’s desire to work in TV, film, broadcast PR, creative advertising and music. He is on a mission to prove that not all accountants are boring!

A qualified ACCA accountant, Keith’s strengths are strategic commercial thinking and a creative leaning that allows him to enjoy working with numbers – rather than crunching them.

Ranked 5th out of 2,000 as a top producing UK financial services sales executive within UK TOP 100 FTSE Company, Keith’s skills are sought after and impressive. His key business skills serve well at a senior commercial level, but his belief that people skills are fundamentally the most important aspect of working with businesses, makes his approach unique and continually proves to be conducive to success.

Keith’s diverse and invaluable experience across a range of sectors makes him an asset to Evoke Management. Emotionally intelligent, he understands his clients’ ethos and aims from a uniquely personal perspective and forms friendly and productive relationships.

He works hard, and plays harder. Frequent rest periods are required for battery recharge, and his favourite form of leisure is relaxing in the sunshine, preferably with the sound of the ocean nearby. A piano player since the age of 6, music is a creative driver for Keith. As soon as his schedule allows, he’s planning to sign up for a course on the science of sound – what switches your ear on when it’s a good tune – and why?

Sharon is an experienced part time Finance Director with a career across a variety of sectors including Digital Publishing, Digital Advertising, Investment Banking, Hotels and Leisure and Travel.  She possesses a broadly based business and finance background and is FCCA and MBA qualified.

Sharon has worked both for large corporations and small and medium sized businesses where she has gained knowledge and experience in all types of settings.  She has a wide range of capabilities across these businesses and has supported them in their activities including running their finance departments, analysing new business opportunities and assisting with preparation for sale.
 
Most recently, Sharon has been working with SME digital businesses as a part time Finance Director, where she is an integral part of the management team taking an active role in financial and commercial management.

Philip is an experienced entrepreneur and accomplished leader with a 25-year record in growing multinational businesses across all aspects including strategy, corporate and business development, operations and finance, drawing on deep operational knowledge of retail and hospitality, SaaS solutions, technical consulting and sales, data integration and analytics.

Philip is a manager who has built, mentored, and inspired successful multinational teams, with a founder ethos and an extensive network of C-level contacts around the world.

Most recently, Philip co-founded a successful bootstrapped SaaS start-up and grew to a market leading global organisation, providing solutions for the world’s largest retailers, before a successful sale and exit.