A team of inspirational hands-on experts from PE-backed businesses

Execute impactful value creation strategies with our Growth Team of experienced operators in finance, operations, and organic and inorganic growth.

Our Growth Team have deep topic expertise:

Commercial best practice: Supercharge your commercial engine to drive organic growth
Inorganic growth: Find the best partners to join you on the journey with our dedicated acquisitions and integration delivery support
Finance & FP&A: Ensure your financial capabilities are robust and sophisticated enough for you to scale rapidly
Systems & cybersecurity: Enhance your operating systems, technology, and security to set your systems up for rapid growth
Operational & delivery excellence: Guarantee transformational projects achieve their goals and tie into a cohesive long-term plan for success

All companies are unique of course, but they often have similar scaling issues, such as rolling out a new sales process, implementing a new piece of tech, breaking into international markets or even hiring a digital marketer for the first time.

Our Growth Team are on hand to get into the trenches, lend support, share experiences, offer up expertise, and connect you with their networks so you can get to where you want to go faster.

Being able to access a high quality sales leader to work alongside and with our sales organisation has been transformational. They have helped us strengthen our sales environment and process and also brought innovative and fresh ideas to the table.”

David Wall
CEO of UnaTerra (part of PSSG)

Growth Team

Rather than relying on consultants who overwhelm with expensive PowerPoints and lots of options, we’ve curated a team of inspirational, hands-on experts from PE-backed businesses to help you and your team. They can help you recruit, design teams and incentive programmes, and even coach and mentor your key staff.

Seb Aspland

Technology Lead

Seb works closely with portfolio companies to strengthen their technology infrastructure and teams. He helps leadership focus on the areas that will have the greatest impact, advising on improvements, investment priorities, and technology-led growth.

Ara Ayvazyan

IT Manager

Ara is an IT expert with extensive experience and a passion for emerging technologies, cybersecurity, and cloud infrastructure. He manages IT at Tenzing and across its branches abroad, ensuring information technology goes hand in hand with business objectives.

Baxter Brook

AI Sherpa

Baxter Brook is an AI Sherpa at Tenzing, making AI accessible and useful for portfolio companies. He turns early ideas into practical solutions that streamline operations, enhance products, and deliver rapid value.

Neil Duffy

Portfolio Finance Lead

Neil is the Finance Operating Partner at Tenzing. He supports the transition of our new portfolio businesses into the world of private equity.

Rhys Elms

Portfolio FP&A Manager

Rhys works closely with our portfolio finance teams to build FP&A capability, supporting them with modelling, reporting and data-driven insight.

Marija Globarevic

Network Lead

Marija is Network Lead in Tenzing’s Growth Team, connecting portfolio companies with the right experts at the right time. She works closely with Investment and functional leads to deliver high-impact support.

Kevon Kelly

AI Sherpa

Kevon works hands-on with portfolio companies to identify high-impact AI opportunities and turn them into working solutions.

James May

Revenue Operations Lead

James is Head of Revenue Operations, sitting at the intersection of data, systems and growth – optimising how the firm runs, and in the growth team helping portfolio companies scale.

Laura Meaden

Portfolio Acquisitions Director

Laura is our driving force when it comes to assisting management teams at Webexpenses, DJH, Gravita and Totara in executing their M&A strategies. For Laura, the team is everything, and she thrives on working with exceptional groups of people.

Nikki Mumford

Virtual Assistant

Nikki supports the Growth Team, keeping things running smoothly so the team can focus on what matters most. She previously worked as an Executive Assistant at 3i and TDR Capital, supporting investment teams in fast-paced private equity environments.

Mark Trebble

Portfolio Operations Lead

Mark supports our portfolio companies by building programme delivery functions and frameworks to drive their growth ambitions.

Pauline Vargas

Portfolio Programmes Lead

Pauline enables connectivity, idea and knowledge sharing, and increased effectiveness across the Sherpas, Entrepreneurs Panel, Growth Team and Portfolio.

Steve Wood

Portfolio Finance Director

Steve works closely with the Finance Teams across our portfolio to provide them with finance and FP&A support.