Tom Worner

MVF

The concept of the ‘lawyer in the corner’ hardly applies to Tom Worner, a general counsel who has found his career nirvana at customer generation business MVF by becoming both a trusted adviser and a corporate strategist.

Since joining, he’s handled a flurry of acquisitions aimed at broadening the portfolio of MVF, whose £91m business is based on a tech platform generating sales tools across different markets. In the space of a single year, he pulled through the purchase of online hearing information provider Everyday Hearing and marketing company Inspire Digital.

In this latest expansion bid, Worner built on experience cemented in previous purchases. In 2017, he led in-house on the acquisition of news website Startups.co.uk for around £1m. In June 2017, the firm swooped for UK-based website development company Websitebuilderexpert.com. At the end of that year, it acquired US technology content site Tech.Co to expand MVF’s Texas base in Austin, which had been open since 2015.

Having taken on the role of director of corporate development, Worner is plotting further expansion in the US and Asia-Pacific, with a view to gaining a presence in the region soon.