About Gavin Gibbons
Founder of Exitable, McGideon.com and WhatWePay
I help owners of established businesses multiply what their companies are worth.
Most of the owners I talk to have a business that works. Revenue is solid, the team shows up, customers pay. But it isn't worth anywhere near what it could be, because value doesn't simply follow profit. A buyer pays a multiple of profit, and that multiple depends on how the business is built: how much rests on the owner, how concentrated the customers are, how clean the numbers are and whether it's growing.
So there are two levers: grow the profit, and grow the multiple. Pull both and the value can rise several times over. It also gives the owner real choices: keep growing, build a group through acquisitions, list it, raise capital against it, or sell, on their own terms and timetable.
I do this through Exitable. We start with a 90-day sprint to find and remove what's holding the business back, working alongside the owner's team. Then we stay on as long-term partners for what follows: growth, acquisitions, building a group and exit.
I've spent my career building businesses from scratch and living and working around the world, and I'm still building. I also work as a board advisor and investor, mostly in construction and building services, such as fire protection & security, M&E, facilities management and HVAC.
I also built McGideon, which delivers business development solutions for construction and building services contractors. We find the work and help them win it. They deliver it.