Board advisory · Mentoring · Investment · Strategic exit

Build. Scale.
Realise Value.

Experienced board-level support for ambitious businesses and the people leading them.

Chalk Futures works with CEOs, founders and investors to accelerate growth, strengthen leadership and build businesses capable of achieving their full strategic value. From CEO mentoring and Chair or Non-Executive appointments to growth strategy, selective investment and strategic exits, we work alongside management rather than simply advising from the outside.

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CEO & Founder Mentoring Chair & Non-Executive Roles Scale & Strategic Value Investment & Exit

What Chalk does

How we help

CEO & Founder
Mentoring

Independent support for CEOs navigating growth, leadership, investors and the decisions that do not come with an obvious answer.

Board Leadership

Chair and Non-Executive roles that bring challenge, perspective and momentum — not simply governance.

Scale & Strategic
Value

Sharpen proposition, strengthen go-to-market execution and build the characteristics that strategic partners value.

Investment & Exit

Selective investment and hands-on support preparing for strategic transactions and the right trade or financial partner.

Building a business someone wants to buy starts long before you want to sell it.

The best exits are usually the consequence of building the right business, not running a sale process at the right time.

Chalk helps leadership teams create strategic options by building stronger businesses from the outset.

Tim Royston-Webb, founder of Chalk Futures Tim Royston-Webb · Founder

Founder

Operator experience.
Board perspective.

Tim Royston-Webb

Tim has spent more than 25 years building, leading and advising technology, information and software businesses. He founded and led Pivotal iQ, acquired by HG Data in 2018, and has held senior leadership roles across organisations including Forrester, Datamonitor, Informa, GlobalData and HG Insights.

Today his work combines operating leadership, board positions, investment and strategic advisory. Current public roles include Non-Executive Chairman/Investor at Graphene Holdco and CEO at SentryBay.

in Connect on LinkedIn Graphene role ↗ SentryBay role ↗

Investment & exit

Creating strategic options

An exit is not simply about finding a buyer. It is about understanding why someone should buy the business, who can extract greater value from it, and how to create genuine choice for founders and shareholders.

Chalk also selectively makes strategic investments where capital, experience and network can help create significantly greater value.

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What are you trying to build?

Whether the challenge is scaling the business, strengthening the board, considering investment or planning for an eventual exit, it normally starts with a conversation.