Kit Hunter Gordon

of The Summit Group which he raised £7m to found in 1985. Kit was responsible for growing The Summit Group into a diversified financial group encompassing vendor finance, property investment and services, structured finance and insurance - many of which commenced as start up operations. Under Kit's guidance, The Summit Group raised more than £150m of capital, and grew its total assets to more than £500m. In 1999, Kit and his co directors took 100% control of the Group by buying out all its institutional shareholders. The Group is now focused on early stage venturing and has a portfolio of 15+ companies spanning a wide variety of sectors including software, business services, finance, medtech, energy and cleantech. Kit himself is an active angel investor, having personally backed more than a dozen early stage companies across a number of sectors, several of which have been successfully exited via trade sales and IPOs.