Gavin Gibbons

Gavin Gibbons is the founder of Exitable, where he works with owners of established businesses to multiply what their companies are worth.

He has spent his career building, scaling and advising businesses, and now works as an investor and board advisor to owners of established companies. His focus is a specific, stubborn problem: businesses that work brilliantly, but only because the owner is in the room. Gavin's work at Exitable starts by removing that constraint: the processes, reporting and leadership structures that let a company run, and grow, without its founder at the centre of every decision.

That is the foundation, not the finish line. A business that runs without its owner is worth more, and it opens up real choices. Exitable works with owners on both levers of value: growing profit, and raising the multiple that profit is valued at. Increasingly, that means building groups of complementary businesses through acquisition, which Gavin sees as the fastest path to shareholder value, and creating exit pathways for their owners: trade sale, private equity, a group exit or a direct listing.

Alongside Exitable, Gavin is the founder of Next Level Ventures, the group behind Exitable and McGideon, and the co-founder of McGideon, which delivers business development solutions that help construction and building services contractors win more work.

His weekly newsletter for owners of established businesses covers growing profit, creating and maximising shareholder value, and the exit pathways that follow. He also publishes regularly on YouTube and LinkedIn.

You'll find more of his writing, thinking and background at gavingibbons.com.

At a glance

Founder, Exitable · Founder, Next Level Ventures · Co-Founder, McGideon · Investor & board advisor · Based in the UK