Paul Fauset
Partner at ACF Investors
Paul Fauset
Partner at ACF Investors
Greater Sheffield Area
Overview
Work Experience
Partner
2018 - Current
ACF Investors manages the Angel CoFund and Delta Fund, working alongside syndicates of business angels, investing primarily into early-stage businesses across the UK. I was a Senior Investment Manager with Angel CoFund until to April 2018, when our team span out of the British Business Bank.
Partner
2018
Akero Capital Partners LLP is the FCA authorised manager of the Angel CoFund and Delta Fund
Senior Investment Manager
2010 - 2018
Launched in April 2013 and headquartered in Sheffield, the British Business Bank (BBB) is the British Government’s national economic development bank, taking on (and adding to) the operations of Capital for Enterprise Limited (CfEL) which I originally joined in 2010. Between September 2011 to May 2018 I was seconded full-time to the Angel CoFund, a delivery partner of the BBB (see above). Between March 2010 and November 2011 I worked as a Manager in CfEL’s Debt Markets team with oversight of the Government’s national loan guarantee programme, the Enterprise Finance Guarantee.
Associate Director, Corporate Finance
2005 - 2010
Five years as a lead adviser on corporate finance to the SME market. During this period I originated, managed and completed numerous deals focussing on MBOs / MBIs and disposals. I also successfully executed a high number of smaller bespoke projects such as valuations, forecasting, general financial appraisals, debt and equity finance raising (including early stage) and financial due diligence. Whilst at Hawsons I was also a Director of Pro-Sheffield Ltd, a networking organisation, running the Young Professionals section.
Corporate Finance Associate
2001 - 2003
Corporate finance advice to public and private middle market companies, across a range of industrial sectors.
Analyst
1997 - 2000
Sept 1999 – Jun 2000: Barclays Capital, New York - Analyst, Global Loan Syndications Sept 1998 – Aug 1999: Barclays Capital, London - Analyst, Large Corporate Banking Sept 1997 – Aug 1998: Barclays Bank Graduate Programme, Sheffield