Operators who advise. Not consultants who operate.
Advisio was founded on a simple premise: the best advice comes from people who have done the job they are advising on. We have built, scaled, and exited technology businesses. Now we bring that experience to private equity-backed companies navigating their own growth and exit journeys.
25+
Years in IT Services
£200m+
Sale Valuation
750
Team Members
£125m
Revenue at Departure
Chris Hodgson
Founder
Most people advising private equity-backed technology businesses have never run one. I have.
I spent more than a decade as COO of ANS Group. We took it from a traditional hardware reseller to one of the UK's leading cloud and managed services businesses: 750 people, £125m of revenue, and EBITDA from £2.5m to north of £40m. In 2021 we sold to Inflexion for more than £200m, and I co-led that exit from the operator's seat.
Along the way I integrated acquisitions that looked clean on paper and were anything but, built engineering teams from scratch, and set up the ANS Technical Academy because the talent we needed could not be hired. We became one of the first UK companies to reach Microsoft Azure Expert MSP status, which only a handful of partners hold globally. More usefully, I learned where value gets created in these businesses, and where it quietly leaks away.
That is what Advisio is for. Not another deck about transformation from someone who has never delivered one. Operator-led advice across the whole private equity lifecycle: due diligence from both sides of the table, 100-day plans, value creation, and exit preparation. I have sat in those rooms, and I know how it feels to carry the number.
The gap we're filling.
78% of all UK IT services M&A is now private equity-backed, with 641 deals completed in 2024 alone. Yet there is no boutique advisory firm that combines deep IT services operational experience with integrated due diligence, value creation, and exit preparation services. Most advisory firms send generalist consultants who have never run a P&L in this sector. Advisio was built to fill that gap: operator-led advisory from people who have done it, not just advised on it.
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