The Acquiror Summit

The leading conference for acquirors in the lower-middle market eCommerce sector.

Join leaders across corporates, private equity, family offices, and eCommerce aggregators for a high-impact conference exploring the trends shaping the next wave of  M&A in the eCommerce sector.

Date: March 9th, 2026
Location: 1 Liberty Street, New York
Who’s Attending: Acquirors, Service Providers, Selected Top Tier Brands & Agencies

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2026 Agenda Coming Soon

In the meantime, below is the agenda for our last conference.

01

Deal Sourcing

9.00am:

Keynote: How PEs are leveraging Data & AI in diligence, value creation and exits - Cerberus Technology Solutions Partner, MD & CTO, Pavan Arora

9.30am:

Excellence in sourcing - Axial CEO, Peter Lehrman

10.00am:

AI-powered sourcing - Fintent.ai CEO, Alex Lukashov

10.30am:

Quality of revenue (QoR) - Blue Ridge Partners senior MD, Pat Donegan

11.00am:

Pitches by businesses for sale

Lunch & networking @ 12.00pm - 1.30pm

02

Value Creation

1.30pm:

New ways to build a Brand. “You may want to consider bringing a knife to a gunfight.” - Director/Executive Creative Director, Amir Farhang

1.45pm:

2025 value creation trends - Sagard VC/PE operating partner, Ian Sherman

2.00pm:

Leveraging technology to drive value creation - Pilot Wave Holdings CEO, Afsheen Afshar

2.15pm:

Lessons learnt from bootstrapping eCommerce holdco - 365 Holdings CEO, Kelcey Lehrich

2.30pm:

The future of the creator economy - Grapevine.ai Founder & Chairman, Nick Shah

2.45pm:

Driving sustainable growth - Sharma Brands CEO, Nik Sharma

3.00pm:

Spotlight on ecommerce value creation - Barlow & Williams, Getida, IG PCC, Kapoq, Standvast and Titan

03

Successful Exits

4.00pm:

A CEO's perspective: Positives, negatives, and driving towards exits - Private Equity CEO/PE advisor, Charlie Cole

4.15pm:

Ned’s exit to Foria in November 2024 - Ned Co-Founder & Co-CEO, Ret Taylor

4.30pm:

Carbon6 $210m exit to SPS Commerce - Carbon6 CRO, Shawn Green

4.45pm:

2025 volume and valuation outlook - The Fortia Group CEO, Emmett Kilduff

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