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Miles Hunt

Miles Hunt

Miles Hunt trained as a solicitor before completing his MBA at Warwick Business School. In 1995 he established a procurement consultancy, ProSource Limited. Miles then set up the international specialist staffing business, Empresaria Group plc, in 1996 and was chief executive until he stepped down in December 2011 to pursue new opportunities. Since then Miles has been working with companies within the Benula Capital portfolio as well as advising a number of companies operating in the business services arena, including recruitment companies, training and HR services companies and companies that provide technology related solutions to the HR sector. He is also Chairman of APSCo Global.  Miles founded Benula Capital in October 2012.

Miles is a highly experienced entrepreneur and investment manager specialising in the staffing and support services sectors. His key skills are in business strategy; deal origination and execution; marketing and cross selling; building brands and managing teams.

Simon Lawton

Simon Lawton

Simon Lawton qualified as a chartered accountant with KPMG in 1985 and became a Fellow in 1996. After 12 years at KPMG rising to a senior manager, he left to become group finance director of Dawes Group (5th fastest growing SME company in Sunday Times). In 1997 he joined Securicor and helped restructure a division and disposal of non-core businesses. In 2000 as group finance director he helped the founder entrepreneur grow Tribal Group plc from a start-up to £250m+ support services business over 10 years until he stepped down in January 2010. Between 2010 to March 2012, Simon was CFO for a tourism property development company that operated in Mozambique. He is currently retained as non-executive director or senior financial board consultant for four SME companies.

Simon is a highly experienced operational finance director with significant experience of all aspects of building and managing a high growth company. He has extensive M&A execution of deals, equity and debt funding and post-acquisition performance monitoring and strategy.

Our latest news

  • Feb 16, 2015

    On July 1st 2014 Benula invested in Davidson, based in Brisbane Australia. Davidson is one of the leading professional recruitment... More

  • Oct 15, 2013

    Benula Capital today announces its investment in European IT and telecommunication recruitment company Darwin Recruitment. Darwin is based... More

Our team

Benula Capital is run by Miles Hunt and Simon Lawton

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Our vision

To generate exceptional investment returns, both through internal cash generation and value realisation.

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Our investment strategy

We focus on providing flexible funding solutions for experienced management teams with growth ambitions.

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Board advisory

In addition to providing flexible funding solutions, Benula Capital provides board advice and support for growing companies and entrepreneurial management teams.

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