Michael Driver

People often become very wealthy after they meet Michael Driver.

Mike is Chairman of Convex Capital. Convex has sold over £1.5bn worth of owner managed businesses in the last six years, the majority in the digital/tech/fashion/online/software/ space to many of the biggest players in the world. From investing in a business and helping it to grow, to preparing an enterprise for exit, Michael Driver is a practitioner in positioning, organising, presenting, and negotiating the sale of equity and businesses.

http://www.convexcap.com/

“Previously I was co-founder of M2 the Managed Print Service business that we grew from 2 founders in 1992 to 250 staff before selling a minority stake to ECI Private Equity in 2006 in a £50m deal. We were a true start up (£2k and we had to live on that as well), took no investment along the way prior to the equity sale to ECI. The business was then successfully sold to SCC. I was CEO, Managing, Sales, Financial and Operations Director along the way” – Michael Driver

http://m2.uk.com

Mike is heavily involved in, and is a regular contributor to, Kilkenomics, the Festival of Comedy and Economics which takes place in Kilkenny in Ireland every year.

He’s talked about topics ranging from the economics of soccer, what’s hot and not for investing, the big 4 accountancy firms, currency wars, pensions, Europe, does money make you happy, Uber and Airbnb. And he says he got away with it.