This is up from £9.8m in 2016 and follows a year when the business has gone through a management buy-out.

Join the Dots has also appointed a new chief financial officer, Pauline Reeves. She will give commercial and financial support across its offices in Manchester, New York and Singapore.

Reeves was previously commercial director at Ntrinsic Consulting.

Join the Dots managing director, Quentin Ashby, said: “To ensure we continue to be successful and deliver excellent work to our clients, we’ve recently restructured the business, appointed Pauline as CFO, and promoted talent strategy director Aimee Welsh to the leadership team.”