1. David Williams Managing Director

2. Fewer than 4% of start ups employ 10 people within 10 years. 1.5m SMEs are not growing and don’t want to grow. 2.7m SMEs wish to grow at 5% but are not growing. 640,000 SMEs are growing at 5% or above. 10,000 businesses growing at 20% annualised over 3 years. (Scale-up Companies) “6% of UK businesses with the highest growth rates generated half of all jobs.” (Nesta) Creating 55,000 Jobs By 2023

3. Finding Skilled Employees Building Leadership Capability Accessing Customers In Other Markets Accessing The Right Combination of Finance Navigating Infrastructure (In order of importance. Source YouGov survey 362 Scale Up Leaders) Key Barriers To Scale Up Companies

4. Think about these barriers and ask ourselves are we focusing on the right things at the moment ? Work together to develop an ecosystem to support scale up companies over the next 5 years ? Ensure a great culture that focuses as much on the how as the what ? Our Challenge