These are private companies in which I have a special
interest in addition to those on whose boards I sit. All
have a very special place in their respective fields.
Investis specialises in
providing online corporate communications services to listed
companies in Europe. It is the clear leader in its market,
serving 250 clients across nine European countries.
It provides
specialised web services, such as event webcasting, creation of
interactive versions of annual reports, share price feeds and
charting tools.
The
Optima Group is a fast growth procurement advisory firm
dedicated to ensuring our clients optimise their non-strategic
overhead spend and unleash hidden profits.
Its savings discovery process is a well-proven model for clients
to optimise their spend and unleash profits hidden within their
organisation. The twelve-year track-record has consistently
created a sustainable cost and profit advantage for over
two-thousand clients across the UK.
Pi Capital is
an independent venture capital firm which invests in small,
unquoted UK businesses. What makes Pi Capital different
from other capital sources is that it represents the private
funds of a club of successful and influential business people
and not the money of larger impersonal institutions.