We've spent our careers building and running agencies.

Operations, finance & M&A

Paul has spent more than 20 years helping digital agencies become better-run, more profitable businesses. He has worked at senior and board level across agencies of different sizes, with particular experience in operations, financial performance, leadership and organisational design.
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Paul also managed the sell-side due diligence process for Vervaunt during its acquisition by IDHL, coordinating the huge amount of operational detail required to get the deal completed.
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At Alongside, Paul tends to get involved where the mechanics of the business need improving: the numbers, people, processes and decisions that determine whether an agency works well.

Positioning, growth & commercial strategy

Piers co-founded We Make Websites and helped grow it from a small London agency into one of the best-known Shopify agencies globally. The business was acquired by Tech Mahindra / BORN Group in 2021. Piers continued as Managing Director until 2024.
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Today he works with agency founders on positioning, proposition, sales, commercial strategy and the bigger question of what they want their business to become.
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At Alongside, Piers tends to focus on making an agency clearer — what it sells, why clients choose it, where growth should come from and what needs to change to get there.