Stephen Allott has rare, first-hand authority on shareholder value creation for SaaS and software companies by repeatedly building, scaling, and exiting category-leading technology businesses.
He built the most valuable organically grown UK software company, Micromuse, to NASDAQ IPO as President, CFO, and main board director. Across multiple software businesses, he has driven growth from early scale to global dominance. As Venture Partner Emeritus at Seedcamp, Europe’s largest seed fund, he has advised hundreds of founders and supported nine unicorns. A former McKinsey strategy consultant and senior executive at Sun Microsystems and Xerox, Stephen combines operational execution, capital-markets credibility, and board-level judgment on how software companies compound long-term shareholder value.
Away from the above, Stephen is a budding pianist and table tennis player. He’s attended BoS frequently and spoken before on scenario planning in times of uncertainty (on the very day the Covid lockdown was announced in the UK), scaling software sales and businesses.
Talks by Stephen Allott
| Financial Planning and the Theory of Constraints 2.0 | April 2026 |
| Scenario Planning for an Uncertain Future | April 2020 |
| Rules & Tools For Scaling Software Sales | April 2018 |
| Growing Profitable Businesses in the Second Machine Age | April 2016 |
| How to Scale a Successful Software Business | April 2015 |
Related Topics
Learn how great companies are run
At BoS we run events and publish content that is highly valued by anyone trying to build, run, and scale a great SaaS or software company.
Sign up for a regular dose of actionable and useful content: