Excelerator Partners
Cate Poulson currently serves as the Chief Operating Officer at Excelerator Partners, a role held since March 2024, focused on building agile teams and curating leadership talent. Since July 2020, Cate has also been a Non-Executive Director at ScaleUp Institute. Prior experience includes over a decade at BGF, where Cate was the Head of BGF Talent Network, enhancing value creation and developing a team to support a significant portfolio of investments. Previous roles include involvement with the Business Leaders Network at 3i Group plc and as a Senior Associate in Private Equity at Korn Ferry. Cate holds a BA (Hons) in English from the University of Oxford.
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Excelerator Partners
Excelerator Partners powers scaling businesses to accelerate their growth and value trajectory by partnering as Trusted Leadership Advisors, Pathfinders, Growth Accelerators & Expert Scaling Practitioners. Our name Excelerator Partners is designed to embody our ethos of excellence, acceleration, and partnership. We are founded by a team that has successfully scaled multiple businesses from start-up through scale-up and hyper-growth. We believe unlocking, synchronising, and leveraging the best leadership talent and capabilities is the bedrock of successful growth. We have designed a different way forward, unlocking and interconnecting leadership capabilities that deliver sustainable, high-impact change and growth, to fuel business success and value. We’ve walked the pathways before, and we walk them together with our clients and network now – we know how to see around corners, assemble and synchronise the building blocks, accelerate through learning and growth pathways, and above all, how to succeed together. Our mission is to accelerate the impact, growth and value creation of scaling businesses. We provide innovative, diverse, agile and sustainable leadership capability solutions that accelerate growth in scaling businesses. We partner with our clients, align with their ambitions and growth plan, and deliver a solution of diverse blended leadership capabilities to enable the business to excel and accelerate growth and value creation. Our Impact Goals: // For businesses: It means increasing competitive advantage and accelerating value creation and growth. // For investors: It means supporting portfolio businesses to realise their full potential and maximise value and impact. // For professionals: It means creating opportunities for diverse, fulfilling portfolio careers that positively impact entrepreneurial business growth.