Selling the Business Without Selling Out

Pritul Khagram is an Exited Founder, having sold his boutique professional services business, People Force, to PwC UK in 2023. After leaving PwC in December 2024, Pritul embarked on a Portfolio Career serving on boards as NED, Board Advisor, Strategic Advisor and some Fractional Leadership roles. Alongside his Portfolio Career, Pritul is an Angel Investor in 13 UK based start-ups and early stage businesses.

D. Earl "Doug" Johnston is the author of Choosing Emotions: Thinking with Your Head and Acting with Your Heart. A lexicographer, investigative business researcher and litigation support expert in commercial banking and mergers & acquisitions, Doug has more than 30 years of executive management experience leading banks and private equity firms. Throughout his career, he has worked across lending, borrowing, due diligence, management, and operations, supervising over $5 billion in total transactions and authoring numerous published articles. While spending nine years researching the language and phenomenology of emotions, Doug developed a highly accessible ‘emotionary’ framework that identifies and defines 272 distinct emotional states as the ‘Gears of Life.’ It draws on insights from psychology, neuroscience, philosophy, linguistics, and the arts to help people communicate more effectively. Utilizing contributions and everyday quotes from 19 academic disciplines and all walks of life, his work makes it easier to express emotions, and to enhance emotional intelligence through easily accessible but deeply clarifying vocabulary and phrases. Choosing Emotions has been cited as the most comprehensive reference book on emotions in the English language, and as a modern-day ‘Bartlett’s Familiar Quotations’ in the specific field of emotions.

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