"I built BDG because I saw the same pattern over and over — brilliant founders, stalled by sales."
Over the past 10 years I've spent my career in sales — from door-to-door in the north of England, to business development in the Middle East. I've seen it all.
I spent eight years in the high-stakes world of property sales. In that industry you learn very quickly that a great asset means absolutely nothing if you don't have a repeatable, structured system to sell it.
But it wasn't until I moved into the wider corporate and startup world that I realised how rare that systemic knowledge actually is. I worked inside a dedicated sales function and watched a frustrating pattern play out: brilliant, innovative products with immense potential, failing to make money. The product teams were exceptional — but the bridge between the product and the revenue was completely broken.
Shortly after, I worked with a real estate team. They had the ambition, the market and the funding — but when it came to implementing their vision, they lacked any cohesive structure.
BDG exists to be that bridge: calm, practical, straight-talking sales leadership for founders who shouldn't have to figure out sales alone.
Matthew Congreve · BDG Consultancy