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Simon Cole, Chief Financial Officer
Simon has worked with a wide variety of companies spanning sectors from retail and entertainment (O2, Atari and Discovery) to hospitality and technology (Venue10, Touchnote). He has straddled a broad range of departments and senior positions ranging from an all encompassing COO role, to CFO, to Head of Special Projects.
From here, Simon moved further into a strategic consulting role which gave him the opportunity of providing sales, marketing, fundraising, finance, and exit planning to a large number of businesses over the last 12 years. That extensive list includes: The Cauldron, Fetchpay, Apparier, Immersive, Redcloud and Stocked.
With Fundraising and expansion planning becoming a key area of focus for Simon over the last 5 years, he has driven 5 businesses to raise over £12m since 2018.