An invite-only community for founders who are serious about growth.

Invite-only community.

Practical Support.

Founder first.

Quarterly curated dinners and expert-led sessions for founders at growth stage.

Our Team

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TOM KENNARD

Founder

Tom built his consultancy from scratch into a top-3 UK innovation advisory firm, raising over £250m in funding for scaling businesses before selling the company. He's done the messy middle of scaling and knows where founders get stuck.

At COG, he brings that experience to bear on the thing most scaling founders avoid confronting: the gap between running a startup and actually leading a company.

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JOE PEARCE

MAGDA KING

Founder

Magda runs Mekion Consulting, helping early-stage and scaling businesses build the teams they actually need rather than the ones that look good on paper. She knows the South West founder community as well as anyone, and she knows when a business is ready to grow its people and when it isn't.

At COG, Magda understands that every growth problem is, at some point, a critical people problem.

Founder

As former head of the SETsquared Exeter Accelerator, part of the world's top-ranked university business incubator, Joe has worked alongside 100+ high-growth founders and helped regional ventures raise over £25m. He knows what good looks like and what gets in the way.

At COG, he brings the institutional knowledge, the honest conversations, and the connections that founders usually can't access on their own.

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