Howard Kosky

Howard has spent more than 30 years building, buying, growing, and selling businesses. He started his first company in 1994 and sold it the following year as part of a FTSE listing. In 2001, he led a management buyout and went on to spend the next two decades growing a group of businesses through expansion, acquisitions, technology, and new market entry across the UK, US, and UAE. In 2023, he sold the group to private equity for more than £50 million.

What Howard brings is not just transaction experience, but the judgement that comes from having lived every stage of the journey himself — starting businesses from scratch, carrying risk, raising capital, making acquisitions, leading teams, and ultimately sitting across the table when the stakes are real. He understands what buyers look for because he has built businesses that have had to stand up to that scrutiny.

Tom Crombie

Tom is a technology entrepreneur who built a global digital education business from the ground up. As founder of My Online Schooling, he grew the company from a start-up into an international platform serving thousands of full-time students across more than 100 countries, supported by teams in London, Scotland, Dubai, and Australia. In 2022, he sold the business to Inspired Education at a 20x revenue multiple.

Tom knows first-hand what it means to build at pace, lead through uncertainty, and create something valuable in a fast-moving market. His perspective comes from doing it himself — developing the product, building the team, scaling operations, and navigating the realities of growth and exit in real time. He works with founders from that same practical standpoint: what actually matters, what buyers really care about, and what needs to be true inside the business before the process starts.

Andrew Bloch

Andrew co-founded one of the UK’s leading PR agencies prior to its sale to an ASX-listed marketing and communications group. In 2020, he stepped down from his day-to-day role as Managing Partner of the agency, while remaining involved as a shareholder until the business was bought back by the management team and ultimately transitioned to an Employee Ownership Trust in 2024.

Today, Andrew works as a consultant in the marketing services industry. His portfolio includes NED, board advisory, consultancy, and project roles across a range of businesses and agencies in the sector. He is also a partner at M&A advisory firm PCB Partners, where he advises agency founders and acquirers on strategy, positioning, and transactions.

Andrew brings genuine “been there, done it, worn the T-shirt” experience to founders preparing for exit and looking to maximise value.

Bryan Lewis

Bryan has spent his career inside businesses, helping them perform, grow, and cope with change when the pressure is highest. His background spans infrastructure, consultancy, and media, with a consistent focus on execution, people, and operational discipline.

While others may focus on the deal itself, Bryan focuses on whether the business is genuinely ready for one. He understands what makes a company hold together under scrutiny because he has been the person inside the business making sure it does. He brings a practical operator’s lens to Exited Founders — helping identify where the business is strong, where it is exposed, and what needs tightening before a sale process begins.