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    "name": "Ferdie Ahmed",
    "label": "Founder of Barrio and Disrepute. Co-Founder and full-stack COO, EverGrowth Group.",
    "email": "me@ferdie.co",
    "url": "https://ferdie.co/",
    "summary": "London-based founder and operator. Founded Barrio (2007) and Disrepute (2016) and sold the group to Nightcap plc in November 2021, after a decade in enterprise data and technology. Co-Founder and full-stack COO of EverGrowth Group, investing his own capital through Clamshell Capital, his personal investment company.",
    "location": {
      "city": "London",
      "countryCode": "GB"
    },
    "profiles": [
      {
        "network": "LinkedIn",
        "username": "ferdieahmed",
        "url": "https://www.linkedin.com/in/ferdieahmed/"
      }
    ]
  },
  "work": [
    {
      "name": "EverGrowth Group",
      "position": "Co-Founder and full-stack COO",
      "url": "https://www.ever-growth.com/",
      "startDate": "2025",
      "summary": "UK buy-and-build, co-founded with Chris West (CEO), that partners with and grows B2B essential services businesses.",
      "highlights": [
        "First business, Excell Cleaning Services (March 2026), funded with the founders' own capital and an Allica Bank loan under the Growth Guarantee Scheme",
        "Founding raise: private equity from FourLeaf Capital and senior debt from OakNorth Bank, with Forvis Mazars advising on both",
        "Medway Heating and Haulaway joined in October 2026",
        "Paul Barry joined as Non-Executive Chair, with Jeremy Waud and Dane Houlahan as Non-Executive Directors"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Clamshell Capital",
      "position": "Founder",
      "url": "https://clamshellcapital.com/",
      "startDate": "2024-03",
      "summary": "Personal investment company through which he invests his own capital in EverGrowth Group."
    },
    {
      "name": "Zacal",
      "position": "Adviser",
      "startDate": "2023-05",
      "summary": "Mezcal from Michoacán, Mexico; launched in the UK in May 2025. Advises the founders, drawing on fifteen years in hospitality."
    },
    {
      "name": "Nightcap plc",
      "position": "Brand steward, Barrio",
      "startDate": "2021-11",
      "endDate": "2022-11",
      "summary": "Stayed on after the sale through new openings in Covent Garden and Watford."
    },
    {
      "name": "Barrio Familia",
      "position": "Founder",
      "url": "https://www.nightcapgroup.com/brands/barrio",
      "startDate": "2007-05",
      "endDate": "2021-11",
      "summary": "Founded Barrio (Angel, Soho, Shoreditch, Brixton) and Disrepute (Kingly Court, Soho). Sold to Nightcap plc in November 2021. Gerald Edelman ran the sale; Adams & Remers also advised.",
      "highlights": [
        "Opened Barrio Angel on Essex Road, Islington, in May 2007",
        "Barrio pop-up bar in Shangri-la at Glastonbury, three festivals running from 2011",
        "Opened Disrepute, a 100-seat members' bar in Kingly Court, Soho, in December 2016",
        "Grew to five London venues, organically and by acquisition; 120 staff and £7m revenue at the peak",
        "Came through COVID with all 120 staff",
        "Built a senior team, installed a Managing Director and stepped back before the sale"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Self-employed",
      "position": "Business intelligence consultant",
      "startDate": "1999",
      "endDate": "2007",
      "summary": "Data warehouses and management reporting at UBS, Swiss Re, BNY Mellon, ING, Shell, GlaxoSmithKline, Eli Lilly, Universal Pictures, OAG and the Inland Revenue. Lived and worked in Zurich."
    },
    {
      "name": "Logica",
      "position": "Graduate programme",
      "startDate": "1998",
      "endDate": "1999",
      "summary": "Trained in data warehousing and business intelligence."
    }
  ],
  "education": [
    {
      "institution": "Brunel University",
      "area": "Mathematics and Statistics",
      "studyType": "BSc",
      "startDate": "1994",
      "endDate": "1998"
    }
  ],
  "skills": [
    {
      "name": "Operations",
      "keywords": [
        "Multi-site operations",
        "Operating model design",
        "KPIs and controls",
        "Post-acquisition integration"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Capital",
      "keywords": [
        "Buy and build",
        "Mergers and acquisitions",
        "Private equity",
        "Senior debt",
        "Exits"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Brand",
      "keywords": [
        "Hospitality",
        "Brand building",
        "Company culture"
      ]
    },
    {
      "name": "Technology",
      "keywords": [
        "Data warehousing",
        "Business intelligence",
        "AI in operations"
      ]
    }
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