Ashley Tott has over 20 years of experience working with ownership, boards and value creation in growth companies. As an entrepreneur, professional chairman and non-executive board member, he has worked closely with owners and boards to increase company value, reduce risk and create clarity in complex growth phases. Ashley co-founded Scalex Growth Partners after repeatedly seeing the same structural challenge across growth companies: many reach a natural ceiling not because of market limitations, but because ownership and board work fail to evolve as the company grows. Without clear ownership logic and an effective board, growth becomes harder, risk increases and value stagnates. Ashley has been working with professional owner and board work since his twenties, having recruited his first chairman at the age of 27. His approach challenges traditional, formalistic board models and focuses instead on boards as an active value-creating function for owners – pragmatic, demanding and outcome-driven. Before Scalex, Ashley worked in private equity at 3i in London, as a chartered accountant at Andersen, and with Specsavers alongside one of Europe’s most successful entrepreneurs. Since moving to Sweden over a decade ago, he has worked extensively with startups, venture capital and ambitious founders.