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Mark Bigley founded Secured Mail in 2006 with a £500,000 loan from the UK SME loan guarantee scheme.

Secured Mail is  a nationwide mail delivery logistics company that at its peak delivered over 500m items per year, with a turnover of £175m and 300 staff. 

Mark was responsible for delivering the business plan and successfully negotiated two venture capital fund raisings and the acquisition of DHL’s DSA business. 

Mark and the management team successfully negotiated the sale of Secured Mail in 2018

In This Episode, We Cover:

• Mark starting his career by working for free to demonstrate value, and taking this attitude with him for the rest of his career.
• On being the custodian of a company.
• Mark’s small dabble in politics and what it taught him about people.
• Raising £500,000 through the small business loan guarantee scheme to start Secured Mail.
• Growing Secured Mail through funding, organic growth and acquisition.
• Why you should consider your PE partners to be your friends.
• How to prepare for investment effectively.
• And much more!

Enjoy this episode with Mark!

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This episode is brought to you by Ford Hastings - fordhastings.com, a board level search firm for startups, scale-ups and SME's (Turnover £2m-£75m pa). Ford Hastings have for over 20 years sourced C-Suite professionals and Non-Executive Directors on behalf of SME's, VC Funds and PE houses.