JGA to merge with Telos Partners
Merger will enable us to provide even greater value for clients looking to leverage the benefits of EO…
JGA is delighted to announce that we will be more closely aligning our business with Telos Partners from 31 January 2024 – ahead of a full merger from January 2025.
Adam Campbell, Managing Partner, Telos (back row, centre) with our MD Jeremy Gadd and team
The merger builds on the relationship JGA and Telos have developed over the last four years, during which we have successfully collaborated to provide support to the Employee Ownership Association (EOA) and its members.
Our companies will initially focus on two key areas: providing our clients with access to a wider range of support and services to transition and accelerate their employee ownership (EO) while merging our back-office functions.
Both brands and organisations will continue to co-exist while we look to merge these more fully over time.
JGA’s founder Jeremy Gadd will remain MD of JGA for the foreseeable future, while joining Telos as a Partner from 1 February 2024.
Delivering greater value for our clients
So why are JGA and Telos merging – and why now?
Our experience of working together – specifically on the EOA’s EO Learn programme and, more recently, on an EOA project designed to benefit the sector as a whole – has encouraged us to make the most of opportunities where we know that, together, we can deliver more value and impact for clients.
With JGA approaching our 10th birthday (January 2024) and both businesses’ positive experience of working even more closely together, it became clear that the time was right to merge.
As Jeremy and Adam Campbell, Managing Partner, Telos Partners, explain: ‘We share a strong belief in the potential of employee ownership to create successful, sustainable organisations that better generate and more fairly distribute wealth.
‘The decision to merge will enable us to leverage JGA’s unrivalled experience of EO transitions alongside Telos’ deeper experience of larger organisations to better support clients to transition to, embed and realise the fuller, longer-term potential of EO.’
Shaping our future together
JGA and Telos’ existing clients, Trusted Partners and other key stakeholders have all been contacted by Jeremy and Adam ahead of today’s announcement.
Both businesses’ Employees, Associates, Associate Consultants and Partners have also been reassured that there will be no initial change to any existing client work or contractual relationship they have with either Telos or JGA.
Over the first 12 months, our teams will work even more closely together, sharing experiences, supporting clients and each other, while Adam and Jeremy’s focus will be on the sustainable, profitable growth of our combined business.
As they explain: ‘We strongly believe there will be ongoing opportunities for all beyond the initial transition period, if this is what people want. Our combined future is very much ours to own.’
Want to know who Telos are and what they do? Find out more on their website here.
