The Team
The Cactus team
Alfie Wenegieme
Managing Partner - Consulting
A chartered accountant and supports the M&A team with due diligence matters through transactions. Alfie has over 15 years of agency experience, working at Edelman and Weber Shandwick.
Mark Sainthill
Managing Partner - M&A
Mark has 15 years experience in the agency world, with expertise in corporate, commercial finance and strategy and planning, working across selling, buying and fundraising for digital marketing, ad/martech and creative businesses.
Joanne Reid
Managing Partner - Delivery
Joanne has over 12 years of delivery, PM and operations experience within the agency sector, having efficiently managed complex project portfolios and teams through rapid growth. She now helps agencies with the same.
Dan Archer
Managing Partner - Marketing
An experienced agency marketer, Dan has spent a decade in the agency growth space, creating and leading marketing strategies and initiatives that have been transformational for their businesses.
Rain Crowson
Business Manager - M&A
Rain is the glue of the M&A team, an analyst and researcher who manages the operational processes and communications throughout all our transactions.
Mark Probert
Managing Partner - Consulting
Mark’s extensive background in finance has made him indispensable to the many agencies he has supported on their growth journey and is one of the most recognised names in the industry.
Louisa Douglas Kent
Marketing Manager
With a strong agency background in events, social and content, Louisa is responsible for delivering our marketing strategy and supporting our continued growth.
Gareth Healey
Managing Partner - Consulting
Gareth has over 25 years experience in the agency sector and for 15 years ran his own £12.5M, 175 person agency. He now enables other agency owners to achieve their potential and scale their businesses.
Abbé Wheeler
Operations Director
Abbe is the wheelhouse of Cactus and ensures a smooth delivery of all of our services operationally. Detailed and methodical, she’s a master of the dark art of metaphoric ‘plate spinning’.
Spencer Gallagher
Founding Partner
Spencer founded and exited a top 8 uk digital agency Bluhalo. He now dedicates his time to supporting independent agency founders scale their businesses, focusing on M&A consulting using his extensive network to connect people.
Sophie Hoole
Head of Finance
Sophie works right across the business ensuring the financial affairs of Cactus are in good shape. She’s responsible for covering everything from payroll and HMRC to invoicing, budgeting and operational reporting.
Pete Hoole
Founding Partner
Pete helped grow and successfully sell Bluhalo alongside Spencer and since co-founding Cactus, has helped hundreds of agencies to grow and hit their financial targets and whilst ensuring a high standard of financial diligence.
Danny Turnbull
Managing Consultant
Danny is one of the most experienced agency leaders in the country and has experienced just about anything an agency can encounter in his 30 years in the industry.
Susanna Simpson
Managing Consultant
Susanna is a highly experienced agency founder, leader and mentor having recently sold her own agency. A PR expert, she now guides and supports founders on their own ownership journey.
Chloe Ellis
Consulting Partner
Chloe brings 24 years experience in supporting agency founders, having created and grown an independent agency group, she now runs our agency mentoring service.
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Jenny Plant
Account Management Skills
Jenny started Account Management Skills, a training company dedicated to helping agency account handlers manage and grow existing client business.
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Tiffany St James
Partner - Cactus Academy
Tiffany is an award-winning digital strategist, serial entrepreneur and one of the inaugural Tech City100. She heads up the Cactus Academy - the virtual training arm of Cactus.
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Daryll Scott
Author, Speaker and Coach
Daryll is an author, consultant and expert in the field of NLP. His greatest achievements by far are the profound personal changes he has helped people to make.
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Remeny Armitage
Client Advocacy
Remeny helps agency owners and professional services to understand what their clients & staff truly think of them, turning them into advocates.
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Gavin Shinfield
Sustainability
Gavin is Chief Sustainability Officer at digital studio Kyan. He aims to raise the bar for sustainable business, including leading teams to become B Corp certified.
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Tom Head
The Web3 Guy
Tom provides learning, consultancy, research and strategy to clients within Web3. He has delivered projects for a F1 racing team, global exchange and new Defi protocols.
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