Simon Webster

Background

About Simon Webster

Simon is an entrepreneur by background who raised the first search fund outside of North America. The fund enabled Simon to acquire RSL in 1995 and he became the chief executive. Over a 10 year period Simon built the organisation by c. 10x, sales of £3.5m to £30m through both organic growth and acquisitions. Simon delivered top quartile returns for his investors. Simon is now a company director, investor and educator. He is focussed on investing in Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition. He has an interest in the healthcare and pharmaceutical sectors. He remains committed to building businesses, mentoring entrepreneurs and generating capital growth. He is currently acting as mentor and investor to several search fund entrepreneurs. He has invested in 70+ search funds and 25+ entrepreneurs who have acquired companies through acquisition. Simon has also successfully undertaken several turnarounds including one business that was losing more than £3m pa and another that was losing more than £1.5m per annum. Simon has been instrumental in raising awareness of search funds in Europe and he is the chair of the Search Fund Advisory Board at IESE and helps to organise the International Search Fund Conference every two years. In addition to his business activity Simon also lectures at LBS, Judge Business School and he is an Entrepreneur in Residence at INSEAD. Specialties: Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition, Healthcare, Pharmaceutical services, mergers and acquisitions, turnarounds and leadership.