Three years ago, John Purdy placed a call with Paul McCann, the high-profile accountant who had served two terms as managing partner of Grant Thornton. Purdy was two years shy of his 60th birthday and was thinking about the succession plan at Ergo, the IT services business he co-founded back in 1993 as a two-man operation selling toner for printer cartridges. Under his watch, Ergo had scaled into a €100 million business, even spinning off two successful units including Fenergo, a fintech that subsequently achieved unicorn status.  But the future was weighing on his mind. Along with his wife Audrey,…

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