Susan Phillips
Fund Board and Investment Committee member

Phillips founded Enterprise Corporate Finance Limited in 1992 and has a track record in corporate finance, specialising in development capital in the sub-£5m market.
To assist with fund-raising exercises for SMEs, she has become an acknowledged expert in the EIS and is a Director and Council member of the EISA, the official trade body for the EIS (see www.eisa.org.uk) and acts as its Director General. 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 indepth 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.
Phillips’ earlier career commenced with a legal background within Burberrys, a subsidiary of GUS plc - a diverse role encompassing legal, intellectual property, human resources, property, insurance, litigation and corporate administration, followed by a move into sales and marketing, predominantly investment related.
