Simon Penson
Managing Partner at Scaled Consulting
Simon Penson
Managing Partner at Scaled Consulting
Peterborough, England
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2022 - Current
Scaled Consulting is a specialist growth consultancy for Agencies and businesses in other B2B service and tech-enabled sectors, as well as fast-growth SaaS and Tech. We Provide Business Leaders, Founders and Executive Teams with simple roadmaps to growth and roll our sleeves up to ensure they work; irrespective of whether that’s at board, strategy, or operational level. Our job is to facilitate faster, more efficient scaling of service-led businesses all the way through exit and beyond.
Angel Investor and NED
2016
Alongside my work as a founding partner at Haatch Ventures I have also been angel investing since 2016. Personal investments focus on a mix of tech and platform businesses as well as start-ups focused in on the digital transformation, marketing and advertising spaces. I act an advisor and/or NxD across many of these as part of my value-add investment thesis.
Board Member
2019
Deazy is a product development platform with the vision to enable anyone to take an idea to reality.
Board Member / NxD
2020
Reflow is a B2B SaaS business that has built field management software that provides real-time job, document and workflow management, showing where your team are, what they’re working on and what information they’re collecting. I have sat on the board for several years supporting the operating team as the business scaled from pre-product to £5m ARR
Director
2015
Habitat Property Group is a vehicle for my real estate investments and was founded in 2015. We specialise in residential where we can add value initially and in areas where yields are 7%+. We are actively looking for properties that fit into this framework! We also look to acquire land.
Non Executive Board Member
2021 - 2024
Harbour is on a mission is to make Web 3 products more accessible and useable by removing the barriers of wasted time, cost and friction when moving between Web 3 and traditional finance. Harbour will become the glue between the existing and the new economies, making financial management seamless across both worlds. I sat on the board as NED to help support growth an a pivot into B2B.
Founding Partner (exited)
2018 - 2024
Haatch is a start up fund focused on making early-stage investments in high growth, scalable, B2B businesses. I am one of four initial founding partners in the business, which was formed out of a belief that the early-stage funding industry was broken and that what founders needed was experienced support as opposed to simply money. We provide smart money to early stage startups via a hands-on approach using our knowledge, experience and network to accelerate their growth and invest our own money alongside our fellow investors. Our EIS and SEIS funds have so far backed more than 100 high growth companies. For the latest list please see https://haatch.com/portfolio/ I exited the business in 2024 to focus on further private equity NED roles and our consultancy business.
Non Executive Board Member
2020 - 2024
Denturly is a healthtech scale up that creates high-quality dentures that look natural and feel great in a new and innovative way combing the very latest in scanning technology and 3D printing.
Member of the Executive Board
2016 - 2020
Board member with full P&L responsibility following our sale into the business in 2016.
Board Member (acquired by IPG)
2015 - 2020
As part of our merger with Stickyeyes in May 2015 I took on a Board position at Group level to help steer the new group strategy through a key time in its evolution. That input saw the Group successfully acquired by IPG Mediabrands in August 2016.
CEO (acquired by IPG)
2016 - 2019
Post merger I took on the role of MD within the expanded group, leading integration and strategy.
Education
GNVQ4
1999 - 2001