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The Better Capital Team
Experienced and proven turnaround investment professionals
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Jon Moulton // Chairman
Jon has long experience of turnarounds, having invested in them for 30 years and with considerable success.
Jon is a Chartered Accountant, a CF and a Fellow of the Institute for Turnaround Professionals. Former Managing Partner of Alchemy, Jon also previously worked with Citicorp Venture Capital in New York and London, Permira and Apax.
Jon is a Trustee of the UK Stem Cell Foundation. He is a very active angel investor. He is Non-Executive Chairman of FinnCap, the stockbroker and a Member of the Advisory Board for the £2.4bn UK Regional Growth Fund.
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Mark Aldridge // CEO
Mark is one of the three founding members, alongside Jon and Nick.
Prior to establishing Better Capital he was a partner at BDO, responsible for the private equity advisory business. He also developed the property finance practice and led an integrated approach to providing corporate finance and business recovery advice.
Before joining BDO, Mark was a partner at Clark Whitehill. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant at Coopers & Lybrand.
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Nick Sanders // Head of Portfolio
Nick Sanders is Head of Portfolio.
An engineer by qualification he spent his early career in the Aerospace industry initially with Rolls-Royce and then Lucas Aerospace. He joined CompAir as CEO in 2002 and led the buyout of the business with the backing of Alchemy Partners. He oversaw a major turnaround in the business with a loss of £19m p.a. being turned in to a profit of £18m p.a. over five years.
The business was voted Private Equity Company Turnaround of the year 2006. Purchased for a nominal sum the business was sold for over £200m in 2008 to a US competitor.
Nick was interim CEO of Deloro Stellite (a Duke Street investment) immediately before joining Better Capital.
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Peter Williamson // Operating Partner
Peter works for Nick with the Portfolio.
A graduate engineer and MBA, Peter began his career in manufacturing and sales roles in BTR and Schlegel before moving to the US to manage the re-organisation of the operations of a significantly loss making manufacturing plant. He was President/ Managing Director of BTR India from 1996 to 1999.
From 1999 to 2004 he was President of the non-automotive weather-strip businesses of Metzeler, a CVC portfolio company, being responsible for Metzeler Automotive Hose Systems, Metzeler Technical Rubber Systems and Metzeler (Benelux) Non-Automotive Sealing Systems. Following the successful sale of the business to Trelleborg in 2004 he was President PA Engine for Trelleborg Automotive. In 2006 he joined an Apax portfolio company Xerium Technologies, initially responsible for Stowe Woodward, and then in 2008 he was made President of their European activities incorporating Huyck Wangner and Stowe Woodward.
Peter has significant international experience having been based in the US, India and Germany for the 16 years, prior to his last role, and has successfully managed complex turnarounds for private equity businesses since 1999.
His last assignment was a complex turnaround and sale of IBP Conex, a Sun Capital Partner’s portfolio company, where he was CEO, where the transformation of a very challenged business brought him to the attention of Better Capital
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Fiona Timothy // Operating Partner
Fiona is Chairman of DigiPoS and Chief Executive of Calyx.
She has extensive senior experience in the IT industry, most notably the software segment.
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Rob Asplin // Director
Prior to joining Better Capital in January 2010 Rob was a corporate finance advisor, most recently specialising in the execution of distressed and turnaround transactions. He has acted for a range of stakeholders including banks, institutional investors and corporates across a diverse range of sectors.
Rob is a Chartered Certified Accountant, a Durham University graduate and holds the ICAEW CF Diploma. He joined from BDO Corporate Finance and prior to that worked at a regional M&A boutique and at Lloyds Banking Group.
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Charles Oakshett // Director
Charles is a qualified Chartered Accountant, and a graduate of Cambridge University.
He joined Better Capital LLP after six years at BDO, where he was a Corporate Finance advisor specialising in the execution of distressed and turnaround transactions. He worked closely with the firm’s business recovery team on company administrations and client restructuring assignments, including the Dawnay, Day Group and the Saad Group.
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Bonnie Kraus // Manager
Prior to joining Better Capital Bonnie advised a range of clients, including corporates, private equity houses and banks on acquisitions and disposals initially at Arthur Andersen and latterly at BDO. She worked in both corporate finance and transaction services teams and developed a particular focus on real estate finance and distressed M&A.
Bonnie read Economics at UCL and trained as a chartered accountant with Arthur Andersen.
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Amanda Douglas // Manager
Amanda is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a graduate from Durham University, she trained at Deloitte.
Prior to joining Better Capital in August 2011 Amanda worked in the recovery and restructuring team at Zolfo Cooper where she was involved in formal administration cases as well as advisory work.
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Tom Wright // Executive
Tom joined Better Capital in September 2011. He read Economics and Finance at the University of Bristol in 2005 and trained at PwC where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 2008. Following this Tom transferred to the Transaction Services department at PwC where he provided financial due diligence advice for a range of Private Equity and Corporate clients.
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Simon Phelan // Executive
Simon joined Better Capital in September 2011 after being selected as one of the 25 candidates in the inaugural year of the New Entrepreneurs Foundation (NEF).
Prior to joining Better Capital, Simon worked as a project manager for Turner and Townsend in London.
Simon is a Trinity College Dublin Engineering and Maths graduate.
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Gerard Lloyd // Head of Legal
Gerard Lloyd is a Solicitor and holds a degree in accountancy and law from the University of Wales (Cardiff).
From 2001 to April 2009, he was Head of Legal at SVG Capital plc, a UK quoted investment trust which is a private equity investor and fund management and advisory business. Between 1993 and 2001, he was the legal director at Schroder Ventures Holdings Limited where he was responsible for all legal matters relating to the structuring and formation of Schroder Ventures funds. Previously he was Company Secretary at Parker Pen - a Jon Moulton led turnaround.
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Chris Morris // Head of Finance
Chris Morris is a Chartered Accountant and holds a degree in accountancy and economics from the University of Wales (Cardiff)
From 2001 to April 2009, he was Head of Finance and latterly Head of Corporate Finance at SVG Capital plc, a UK quoted investment trust which is a private equity investor and fund management and advisory business. In 1988, Chris joined Schroder Ventures Holdings Limited, London, in a financial reporting and fund structuring role. He was appointed Finance Director in 1996.
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