Our Team

Susan Phillips - CEOFounded Enterprise in 1992 and has a track record in corporate finance, specialising in development capital in the sub-£2m market.  Across this 17 year period, frustrated with the lack of availability of funds in this equity gap, she has extended her network of contacts to carry out successful fund-raising.

To assist with fund-raising exercises for SME's, Susan has become an acknowledged expert in the Enterprise Investment Scheme and is a director and Council member of the EIS Association, the official trade body for the EIS.  The objective is to promulgate investment activity in the SME marketplace, an activity which dovetails with advisory and investment management activities in this area. 

Her sector skills are broadly based, as are the businesses with which she works although she has in depth experience in financial services, media, leisure, retailing, environmental/ethical investments and certain types of technology.

In 1988/89, she was a key party in an MBO team backed by Merchant Navy Pension Fund/Ensign Trust to acquire an investment management company to establish the UK's first independent PEP provider with a range of innovative products, including a guaranteed PEP.   The company was subsequently sold to Abtrust, now Aberdeen Prolific with a full product range and funds under management. Susan Phillips' earlier career commenced with a legal background within Burberrys, a subsidiary of GUS plc - a diverse role encompassing legal, intellectual property, HR, property, insurance, litigation and corporate administration, followed by a move into sales and marketing, predominantly investment related.

Simon Reeve - Associate Director
Simon brings a unique combination of senior-level operational expertise and investment management experience to Enterprise.  He is currently CEO of FLEX Group, a global financial services distribution business which he co-founded in 2002, and CEO/co-founder of Deadezee Ltd, a web-based community development platform.

Simon was a key management figure at Antfactory Ltd, a £300mm global technology investment company where he was Director of Ventures, overseeing the entire portfolio of 27 start-up/2nd round investments across Latin America, Europe and Asia.   Prior to that Simon was a managing consultant (technology) at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson, and Vice President of AremisSoft Inc., a multi-sector software solutions business which he was instrumental in bringing to Nasdaq.

U.S. trained (Litton); Simon has a post-graduate qualification in IT applications and has operated at CEO level within technology since 1984. He is also a Director of Revecom Limited, a City-based consultancy dedicated to assisting both investment institutions and fledgling management teams involved in early-stage technology business.

Associates

John Sanderson is a consultant and business advisor in the leisure and media sectors.  After 10 years as a leading investment analyst in these sectors, latterly for NatWest, he joined the Hydra consultancy as a director.  Hydra had been established under the wing of the marketing and strategy consultancy SRU to advise clients on strategy and commercial business development in the electronic media sector.  Clients included EMI, BSKyB, Channel 4, and Times Newspapers.  Hydra was bought out in 1999 and John established JFWS Ltd. undertaking consultancy projects for The Football League, United Business Media, PwC and Channel 5 among others.  In addition to advisory work John undertakes more hands-on and entrepreneurial activity in young and developing companies.