Susan Phillips
Fund Board and Investment Committee member
Phillips founded Enterprise Private Equity Limited in 1992 specialising in and predominately working with unquoted investments. She has a background in investment management and for over 20 years has specialised in financing, advising and mentoring unquoted companies across a wide range of industries. She has become an acknowledged expert in the EIS community and is the Director General of the EIS association, the official trade body for the EIS (see www.eisa.org.uk).Phillips, Chairman of Enterprise Private Equity, has diversified skills across several sectors and in-depth experience in Corporate Finance and financial services, media, leisure, retailing, environmental/ethical investments and certain types of technologies.
In 1988/89, she was a key party in an MBO team backed by Merchant Navy Pension Fund/Ensign Trust to acquire an investm
ent 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.
