Who We Are
We are a group of experienced business leaders and investors who are passionate about supporting businesses through their next phase of growth
We have over 40 years of combined experience, spanning fundraising, investment, M&A and business operations. We want to work with like-minded, profitable businesses that provide professional accounting, tax, payroll and HR services, with turnover between £200k and £5m, and are ready to take the next step in their growth journey.
Meet the team
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Manisha Chana, CEO
Manisha has over two decades of comprehensive experience across audit, consulting and strategic leadership of growth companies.
She has over a decade of experience as a senior leader in high growth companies including as the CFO at MyTutor and Lyst (both of which scaled to £20m+ revenues and 150+ employees), as well as acting as fractional CFO for a number of high growth companies.
Manisha has fundraised $120m+ in equity and debt across 7 rounds of investment.
She is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, England & Wales.Manisha trained at KPMG in audit, before moving into financial advisory and commercial finance roles at KPMG and EE.
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Charlotte Lawrence, Senior Advisor
Charlotte has spent two decades in private equity and corporate finance, investing in and advising businesses on M&A.
For the last 13 years, she led technology growth investments across Europe both as a Managing Director at PSG Equity, a $14bn AUM specialist software private equity investor, and at The Carlyle Group, a leading $376bn AUM alternative asset management firm, for their European Technology Fund.
Prior to that she advised companies on M&A and other financing transactions at Merrill Lynch and UBS. She is also an active angel investor in technology and B2B services companies.
Charlotte is responsible for providing support on investment strategy, M&A and long-term direction, as well as coordinating with the group of private investors supporting our efforts.