Andrew Thomis, CEO of Cohort, joins Victoria Stevens for the latest episode of Stock Exchanges to explain how Cohort has scaled from an AIM-listed company to a group of seven specialist defence businesses and talk leadership and strategy.

He also discusses the impact of the UK and its allies increasing defence spending in response to the War in Ukraine and Trump’s second terms as President and innovation in warfare, including AI and other technology.

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What happens after you step back from the company you built from the ground up? Morgan Tillbrook, Founder and former CEO of Alpha Group, joins Victoria Stevens for a candid conversation for the latest Stock Exchanges episode about building a company worth over £1 billion, a journey in which the business went from an initial foreign exchange risk management provider to a broad alternative banking offering.

Morgan reflects on how he scaled a consultancy-led startup into a global platform, why decentralised ownership and culture were central to Alpha’s success, and what led him to gift £28 million of his own shares to management after stepping down.

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Fever-Tree has been an extraordinary growth story over the past two decades, having started with the idea of creating premium mixers to complement premium spirits. The company has now branched out to more than 90 countries, being the number one mixer brand by value in the UK and the market leader in tonic water and ginger beer in the US.

In this episode of the Stock Exchanges podcast, Victoria Stevens talks to Tim Warrillow, Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Fever-Tree Drinks, about the fascinating journey, from sourcing miraculous quinine in the depths of the Democratic Republic of Congo (literally staring down the wrong end of a Kalashnikov), through Fever-Tree being included in one of the dishes on El Bulli’s world famous tasting menu, to the strategic partnership with Molson Coors.