About Matt OngMatt is the CEO and Founder of Ctrl Alt. Matt spent the first part of his career in investment banking, working across
fund structuring, alternative investments and trading at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse. Drawing on this experience, Matt has developed extensive knowledge of building financial products, structuring, regulation and asset raising.About Ctrl AltCtrl Alt is a leading tokenization infrastructure platform, combining blockchain technology with expert financial engineering to deliver tailored, compliant solutions in the alternative assets space. As of August 1, 2025, Ctrl Alt has tokenized over $325 million in assets, spanning real estate, private credit, funds, litigation finance and more.For further information, visit www.ctrl-alt.co or contact [email protected].

About Matthew TaylorMatthew Taylor is a seasoned business leader and high-impact transformation specialist with over 20 years of experience in high-risk industries. As the founder of Meta Transform, he pioneers the integration of culture, consciousness, and operational excellence through innovative tools like the MetaSense 7D Assessment. Currently serving as Interim COO at a heavy lifting and transportation company, Matthew leads strategic turnarounds with a focus on safety, asset control, and operational performance. A devoted father of five—including two sets of twins—he balances business leadership with a deep personal commitment to mindset, health, and family growth. His work empowers C-suite leaders to align values, improve systems, and unlock sustainable performance gains.

About AllelysAllelys is a family-run, UK-based company specializing in heavy lift and transport solutions. They provide services to various industries including power, civil engineering, rail, and more. The company has a large fleet of equipment, including modular axles, girder bridge trailers, and hydraulic lifting gantries, and offers comprehensive project management and logistics support. Allelys emphasizes a "factory to foundation" approach, managing projects from initial planning to final installation.

About IanIan Mitchell began his entrepreneurial journey in a modest double garage in East London, with little capital and while still recovering from a serious car accident. Despite the challenging start, he built a business that grew to employ over 1,000 people and earned multiple awards for growth and service excellence. Throughout this journey, Ian discovered the critical importance of building high-performing learning cultures—ones that are aligned, capable, and effective. After selling Direct Response, he turned his focus to his true passion: reimagining how organizations understand and improve performance using next-generation auditing techniques. This led to the co-founding of DeepFathom, a technology company at the forefront of audit innovation.About Deep FathomWith more than 25 years of experience in systems thinking, auditing, service innovation, and business process outsourcing, Ian has worked with global brands to design quality, risk, and compliance systems that go far beyond box-ticking. At DeepFathom, Ian leads the development of digital tools that blend behavioral science with data analytics, transforming audit from a backward-looking compliance exercise into a proactive driver of performance. He continues to explore the evolving role of quality in the age of AI, ESG, and agile organizations. In this podcast, Ian will challenge conventional audit thinking and share a bold vision for how quality professionals and business leaders alike can unlock greater value in fast-changing, complex environments.

🎙️ Matt Williamson founded Vizzly (acquired by WPP) to help B2B SaaS companies build customer-facing analytics dashboards quickly, without compromising on flexibility. Traditional embedded analytics solutions were rigid and slow, forcing companies to choose between speed-to-market through no-code tools or spending months building custom solutions. Vizzly bridged this gap with a hybrid approach that enabled rapid deployment while maintaining developer control.

🚀 Vizzly demonstrated that founders can achieve significant exit outcomes without chasing headline fundraising numbers. The company maintained strong revenue per employee ratios with a minimal team, proving that raising modest seed funding and focusing on profitability can create attractive acquisition opportunities. This approach offers a middle path between bootstrapping and traditional venture scaling, enabling life-changing exits without the extended timelines and dilution of aggressive growth strategies.

🤖 WPP acquired Vizzly in October 2024 to integrate analytics technology into their comprehensive service offering for enterprise clients like DoorDash, HSBC, and Airbnb. As the world's largest advertising company, WPP's acquisition strategy focuses on building complete solutions that address every client need through in-house capabilities or strategic acquisitions. This enables them to deliver integrated marketing effectiveness and attribution platforms that individual agencies cannot match.

About Lewis Chawko

Lewis Chawko is the founder of RevOps Consulting, with a unique journey from sales to revenue operations expertise. Starting as an SDR and progressing to AE, Lewis discovered his passion for operational problem-solving and self-taught essential RevOps tools in his free time. He transitioned from sales into a full-time RevOps role before launching his consultancy, where he now helps tech startups and scaleups optimise their revenue operations and scale their go-to-market teams.

About RevOps Consulting

RevOps Consulting specialises in revenue operations for sales and GTM teams at tech startups and scaleups. They focus on scaling go-to-market teams, optimising RevOps tech stacks, and helping businesses transition from inbound to outbound motions. Through fractional RevOps services, the consultancy helps growing companies streamline their revenue operations, align their systems, and build scalable processes that support sustainable growth.

About Phil Mowat

With over 15 years in franchising, Phil joined Ashtons Franchise Consulting in 2019. As the first point of contact for new clients, Phil assesses their needs and creates tailored franchise development plans, then delivers franchise development work to help business owners turn their companies into successful franchise brands. Phil’s franchising career began in 2009, when he helped transform his sister’s makeup artist booking agency into a franchised business, moving operations from paper-based systems to digital processes and growing the network through recruiting and training franchisees. Before joining Ashtons, Phil worked with other franchise brands, gaining hands-on experience in building systems, supporting franchisees, and developing franchise networks. Phil brings deep insight into business growth, strategy, and franchise success

About Ashtons Franchise Consulting

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Since 1981, Ashtons Franchise Consulting has helped businesses grow through franchising, supporting brands from startups to global expansions. The experienced UK-wide team includes former franchisors and franchisees, offering practical, real-world insight at every stage of the franchise journey. Ashtons tailors its services to each client’s goals, budget, and pace-avoiding a one-size-fits-all approach. In recent years, three clients have been finalists for the British Franchise Association Emerging Franchisor Award, with Get A Drip (2023) and My Window Cleaner (2020) winning, and Radfield Homecare (2019) recognized as a finalist.

🌍 Kostas Dimitros, a Greek senior professional in the construction industry with over 22 years of experience in the Middle East, shares his journey from Athens to Dubai. Kostas has worked with renowned companies such as Parsons, Bechtel, and Kerzner, delivering mega projects, developing comprehensive growth strategies and cultivating strong client relationships. Some of the large-scale projects include the ALBA Aluminum Smelter Expansion in Bahrain, the MINA Oil Tank Farm in Salalah, Oman and hospitality projects like the Atlantis Hotel and Theme Park on the Palm Jumeirah in Dubai and the Ferrari Theme Park on Yas Island in Abu Dhabi. Currently, he leads the Strategic Programs and Aviation Programs growth initiatives for Parsons in the EMEA region.

🏗️ The Middle East, particularly the UAE, Qatar, and Saudi Arabia, has undergone significant transformation through mega projects in the last 30 years. Dubai and Abu Dhabi began by diversifying their economies beyond hydrocarbons, focusing on tourism and infrastructure development. This involved creating a tourist ecosystem with large hotels, residences, and the necessary infrastructure like power plants and water supply systems. Qatar followed suit with its preparations for the 2022 FIFA World Cup, while Saudi Arabia has embarked on groundbreaking giga projects such as NEOM and The Red Sea Project as part of its Vision 2030 initiative, as well as preparing for the 2034 World Cup.

👥 Stakeholder engagement and building trust is crucial in delivering these mega projects. Kostas emphasizes the importance of understanding the needs of various stakeholders, including those who run the cities before, during, and after project implementation. This involves stakeholder mapping, listening to their concerns, and having constructive discussions about their expectations and receptiveness to changes in their environment. Effective stakeholder management throughout the supply chain is essential for the successful delivery of these ambitious projects.

About Paul Stefiszyn

Paul Stefiszyn is a partner in ESP Consulting and an expert in electricity markets, energy trading, and risk management, with 25 years’ experience in industry and consulting in Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and North America. Paul’s recent work has focused on supporting governments and system operators with market redesign to advance the decarbonisation of electricity systems. He also regularly advises both small and large energy companies on commercial strategy, risk control, performance measurement, and governance.

Prior to joining ESP Consulting in 2010, Paul held a number of senior risk management positions with Nuon Energy (now Vattenfall), a vertically-integrated European energy utility. Before joining Nuon in 2005 he was a Vice President at MSCI, where he led the European operations of FEA, MSCI’s commodity analytics business, providing specialist software models for valuation and risk management in the energy industry.

About Etienne Gillard

About Roberto Arroyo

Roberto Arroyo is an Ecuadorian and French entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in the construction industry. As the founder, CEO, and Chairman of Construex, the fastest-growing and largest Construction Marketplace in Latin America boasting over one million subscribed companies, Roberto has showcased his ability to navigate and conquer the challenges inherent in developing economies through visionary leadership. Since 2009, he has initiated both for-profit and non-profit ventures in sustainable mobility, art, and social responsibility, demonstrating his commitment to impactful entrepreneurship. 

About Construex

Construex is a marketplace founded in Ecuador in 2019, dedicated to the construction and architecture sectors in Latin America. Its mission is to digitalize the construction industry, a market valued at more than $1.5 trillion. Construex connects construction product suppliers with the clients who need them, facilitating the management and purchase of materials for projects of all sizes. With more than one million suppliers in its network, the platform covers all areas of the industry, from architecture and engineering to final finishes. The platform currently operates in Ecuador, Mexico, Guatemala and Chile, helping suppliers increase their digital presence and customers find the products they need more efficiently.