London, 12 October 2026: EverGrowth Group, the founder-led platform growing B2B essential services businesses across the UK, is delighted to announce the appointment of Jeremy Waud and Dane Houlahan as Non-Executive Directors. They join the EverGrowth board and will work closely with the co-founders, Chris West, Chief Executive, and Ferdie Ahmed, Chief Operating Officer.
Jeremy has more than 35 years’ experience in contract services and facilities management. He founded Incentive FM Group in 2001 and built it, organically and through acquisitions, into a national business delivering cleaning, window cleaning, M&E and consultancy services with its own people. He was Chairman when Incentive was sold to Atalian Servest in May 2022.
Dane is a partner at Quercus International, where he advises listed and private companies, private equity and government on UK and international transactions. His work spans mid-market acquisitions, disposals, management buyouts and equity and debt raisings, with a focus on business services and the built environment. Earlier in his career he was a partner in KPMG’s corporate finance business and its UK Head of Business Services. A qualified lawyer, he is a non-executive director of several businesses, including the housebuilders Antler Homes and Alfred Homes.
Between them, Jeremy and Dane bring deep experience of founding, running and growing businesses, and of the deals that build and realise them. They will support and challenge the executive team.
“Ferdie and I are excited to welcome Jeremy and Dane to the board. Jeremy has built and run a national facilities management business with thousands of people, and Dane has advised on deals across the markets we are building in. That mix of operating and deal experience is exactly what we need as EverGrowth grows. The owners who join us will find a board that has built, bought and sold businesses.”
Chris West, Co-Founder and Chief Executive, EverGrowth
“Facilities management is a people business. Winning the work matters, but delivering it, every day, on every site, with the right people, is where value is made or lost, and that only gets harder as a group grows. EverGrowth has the ambition and the backing to build something significant in this market, and I am proud to be part of it.”
Jeremy Waud, Non-Executive Director, EverGrowth
“Building a group by acquisition takes discipline. A good board asks hard questions before each acquisition and keeps asking them after it, and that is what we will do at EverGrowth. There is an increasingly exciting market opportunity for the group in the sector, and I am looking forward to joining Jeremy and the team on the board.”
Dane Houlahan, Non-Executive Director, EverGrowth
About EverGrowth
EverGrowth Group is a founder-led, institutionally backed group partnering with and growing B2B essential services businesses in the UK. Founded by Chris West and Ferdie Ahmed and backed by FourLeaf Capital, with senior debt from OakNorth, it is building four divisions: Soft Services, Hard Services, Environmental Services and Critical Services, with the ambition of becoming a nationwide total facilities management provider. EverGrowth partners with businesses to build on them, not to fold them in: each keeps its name, its people and the trust it has earned with its customers, with the group’s support in finance, people, technology, and health and safety behind it.
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