EVO Ultra Prospectus

An Exclusive Mastermind Club for Leaders

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EVO Ultra is a confidential business club specifically for CEOs, entrepreneurs and owner/managers from a wide range of sectors. It is a trusted ‘club of peers’ for ambitious, like-minded business leaders.

Our mission is to create a network of game-changing leaders.

It can be lonely at the top, and time is precious. EVO Ultra has been developed to equip our members with the ability to navigate seismic social, political and economic changes as well as rapidly-advancing technologies. We provide a crucial monthly gathering for busy business leaders to achieve extraordinary results in just two and a half hours. It is a ‘condensed’ mastermind and peer group in one, providing high-calibre support, networking, learning, and problem-solving. Ultra meetings are a uniquely confidential space where objective, independent insights and interventions can make an incalculable difference, whether personal or professional.

We champion cognitive diversity: different and original thinking

around how to approach challenges and achieve the vision.

Our members give and gain fresh insights from the wisdom and experience of their peers and benefit from experts specifically selected to stimulate new ideas around the key needs of the group. All meetings are underpinned by a confidentiality agreement, enabling ideas to be freely- shared. Members tell us their experience of EVO Ultra has been transformative.

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Group Leaders

General Sir Peter Wall GCB, CBE, DL, FREng

Combat Stress, the UK military mental health charity. He is an avid follower of sport, sails, skis and plays the occasional game of village cricket.

British and foreign governments at the highest levels, as well as a proven track record in the strategic leadership of large and complex organisations. He is a recognised speaker on geopolitics and leadership techniques in business. Peter is a director of the General Dynamics Corporation and president of

Sir Peter Wall is the co-founder of Amicus, a specialist leadership consultancy. He was the Commander in Chief of UK Land Forces and subsequently, Chief of the General Staff (Head of the British Army), retiring in 2014. He has an engineering degree from the University of Cambridge and has extensive experience in dealing with

Ian Workman

in Society and previous education includes abridged leadership training at Stanford University.

Today, Ian is recognised as an industry leader and expert in the SME Sector having worked with thousands of businesses across the UK in all sectors. He is a passionate advocate of social business and social impact and also equality and diversity in society and is currently studying part time for a Masters degree in Equity & Diversity

Ian Workman is the MD of new bank Recognise. Until 1st December 2021, he was the Managing Director, Head SME Barclays Business Banking in the UK. At Barclays, he worked with over 1 million business customers and 1,000 Relationship Managers but began his time at the bank over 30 years ago as a teenager in a small branch in West Wales.

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Testimonials

Mike Parfitt Founder and CEO of Team Metalogic

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As a sole shareholder in a business, it can be quite lonely. A peer group like EVO Ultra can allow me to bring ideas to the table and get tips and advice based on other people’s valuable experience. As we look at driving strategy and growth in the business, the sounding board of this peer experience has proven invaluable to me.

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Michelle Michael MBE Serial Entrepreneur

I am really pleased that I joined. The 1-1s were really interesting – always good to meet new business owners and operators. A great group of people. I really loved the speaker – brilliant!

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Darshan Patel Founder, Entrepreneur & Investor

I was originally sceptical about mastermind groups. Ultra is definitely the best group I have ever joined. The reason for this is because of there are high performing, like-minded individuals in each group, carefully matched. What you put in is what you get out. It’s high strategy, high level, and an amazing bunch to be around in my group. We help each other with our business goals and business issues with the Member spotlights and 1-1s. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it and am motivated to go to each meeting every month. Jamie and the team are fantastic in how they match- make with no competition.

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ROGER PROCTOR MBE

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Former Guest Speakers

Emma Jones CBE is an authority on small business and enterprise. She founded Enterprise Nation after selling her first business to Tenon plc. She was a co-founder of national enterprise campaign StartUp Britain. She ran the private sector-funded and Government-backed campaign as CEO from 2011 to 2014. Emma is also the author of bestselling business books. Wing Commander Andy Green OBE is a Royal Air Force fighter pilot and holder of the World Land Speed Record. A veteran of combat theatres around the world, he has commanded Royal Air Force operations in both Iraq and Afghanistan. He is ‘The Fastest Man on Earth,’ and the first person to break the sound barrier on land. He will attempt to break the record again in the new BLOODHOUND SuperSonic Car.

Roger Proctor MBE is a marketing communications, design and brand specialist. Founder of the award- winning Bristol-based marketing, design and communications agency, Proctor + Stevenson. established in 1979. He is an advocate of design as a catalyst for positive change economically, culturally and socially, particularly in the South West of England. Rob Law MBE is the founder and CEO of Trunki, the brand behind the much-loved ride- on suitcase for tots. Rob is an inspiring example of a British entrepreneur who through grit, passion and real belief built the global brand Trunki. From an idea over 20 years ago, a famous rejection on Dragons’ Den to selling over 4 million ride-on suitcases. The company has won over 120 awards within the design, trade, consumer and business sectors.

Professor Dimo Dimov is Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at University of Bath. He has been recognised among the top 100 professors of entrepreneurship worldwide. Dimo holds a PhD in Entrepreneurship from London Business School and an MBA from Case Western Reserve University (USA) and the CEU Graduate School of Business (Hungary). Dimo’s research focuses on entrepreneurial thinking, process, and practice. He is co-founder of Kinetic Thinking, a validated framework for personal and organisational development. Ajith Jayawickrema started in business in Sri Lanka reconditioning abandoned fridges. He opened the first Latin American-themed Las Iguanas, with a £10k bank loan in 1991 pretending it was to buy a car. It became a well-known restaurant chain around the UK. He sold it in 2015 for £80m. In 2010 he co-founded Turtle Bay - the casual dining Caribbean restaurant aimed at the mainstream market. Again, this has experienced huge growth and employs thousands of staff across 42 venues. .

AJITH JAYAWICKREMA

EMMA JONES CBE

ROB LAW MBE

PROFESSOR DIMO DIMOV

WING COMMANDER ANDY GREEN OBE

ROGER PROCTOR MBE

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Former Guest Speakers

Jennifer Carnegie is an accomplished senior executive, talent management strategist, and leadership consultant who aligns people with processes to improve organizational performance and effect positive culture change. She is known for her work ethic, problem-solving skills, and ability to develop trusted, long-term business relationships. As chief operating officer of AMICUS, she brings her diagnostic and emotional intelligence skills to bear in more complex environments. Jude Levy is a business coach and mentor. She was the CEO and Executive Chairman of the High and Mighty Group, a Former Vistage Chair for the South West and a Children’s Charity Trustee. She is also the CEO and Founder of The Pier Group and Keynote Speaker. She specialities as Brand Creation, Strategy, International Business, Leadership and Team Mentoring.

Sunjay Singh co-founded LifeMedia UK aged 18 and today is a rising star in video production. At EVO Ultra, he spoke about his passion for diversity in business. LifeMedia UK helps marketers generate leads and business owners grow their business through the power of video marketing. He received a First Class in Genetics at The University of The West of England.

Mark Wright is an influential entrepreneur and self-taught digital marketing specialist, renowned for his success in winning BBC’s The Apprentice 2014. In securing the winners title, Mark went on to find and develop one of the UK’s fastest growing digital marketing agencies, Climb Online, in partnership with Lord Sugar. As the most successful business to have been founded by an Apprentice winner to date, Climb Online turned over an impressive £1.7 million and secured contracts with over 200 businesses from across the UK and overseas in its first year of trading alone. Andrew Knight is the Founder and Principal Consultant at The Spark Company, an expert HR and Change Consultancy. Andrew believes that putting people first leads to better businesses so he founded The Spark Company with a mission to make work more human. Andrew is a Chartered Fellow if the CIPD, and a Non- Executive Director and the Chair of the Board at Taff, a Cardiff-based housing association providing great homes, improving lives and creating positive change in our communities.

JENNIFER CARNEGIE

SUNJAY SINGH

MARK WRIGHT

Rayner Davies was, until 2022, the Managing Director and Co Founder of A&R Services. She is a multi- award winning entrepreneur, a Great British Business Woman Finalist 2021, an Amazon best seller and the Woman of the Year 2020. In 2019 she won the Institute of Directors Family Businessperson of the Year. In 2022 she sold a large stake in the business she co-founded and is beginning new adventures starting in property.

RAYNER DAVIES

JUDITH LEVY

ANDREW KNIGHT

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Meeting Structure 7.00am - 9.30am. Monthly online and quarterly in-person.

E A C H M E E T I N G H A S A S E T T H E M E

→ Leader welcomes, introduces the theme and any new Members/Group News → Short ‘status update’ on both a member ’s business and personal performance over the last month + have they reached agreed goal

→ An external guest expert speaker on the meeting’s theme: fireside chat/or presentation with Q & A → Member Spotlight # 2: 20 mins of whole group ‘masterminding’ a Member ’s specific question/challenge (chaired by Sir Peter or Ian) → One to One # 2 - 15 minutes + accountability partner lock-in for next month → Each member explains their partner ’s agreed goal to group for the next meeting

One to One # 1 - 15 minutes

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→ Member Spotlight # 1: 20 mins of whole group ‘masterminding’ a Member ’s specific question/challenge (chaired by group leader)

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About Evo Ultra

Jamie Breese Founder

and has made a dozen films and videos to date. Currently, he co hosts/ co produces the weekly LinkedIn accredited show The Biz Live and continues to work for charities, having helped raise over £1m as an auctioneer and compere.

England and has been held 10 times to date at stadium venues. Alongside this, he has developed a contacts book as an event host, columnist at the Sunday Mirror for 20 years and a presenter of more than 500 network TV shows in the UK and US. He won a 2 year deal with Steven Spielberg as a writer and director

Jamie is the founder of EVO and EVO Ultra. He has been running business events for 13 years: stadium expos, online and in-person events in premium venues and dozens of upper-tier networking balls for 500+ decision- makers at Only Connect. His Business Showcase South West is the largest business event in the SW of

Sarah Brooks Head of Business Development

California Los Angeles (print journalism) and the University of West LA (law); she is also a qualified Personal Performance Coach.

events, media communication and on-camera presentation skills courses alongside developing and expanding the bi-annual Business Showcase South West at Ashton Gate Stadium, the largest business expo in the region. Sarah has degrees from the University of York (politics and history), City University (broadcast journalism), University of

Sarah’s career in television and radio spanned nearly 20 years: she worked for the BBC as a TV reporter, a producer on BBC Radio 4 and is an award-winning factual entertainment series producer of primetime shows for the BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Five and Discovery. She has collaborated for many years with Jamie Breese to deliver networking

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