Anthony Clarke (businessman)

Anthony Clarke
Born
Anthony Richard Clarke

1953
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Chartered accountant, chartered secretary, and businessman
Known forCEO of Angel Capital Group

Anthony Richard Clarke (born 1953)[1] is a British chartered accountant, chartered secretary, and businessman. Clarke is the chief executive officer of Angel Capital Group and the managing director of London Business Angels.[2][3][4]

Clarke qualified as a chartered accountant and chartered secretary with Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in 1980. He then had a variety of jobs, including chief executive of Carroll Industries Corporation in the early 1990s.[5] Clarke has been involved with the venture capital/business angel sector since 1995. Between 2002 and 2009 he was managing director of GLE Growth Capital.[6]

Clarke is the co-founder of the Enterprise Capital Fund, Seraphim Capital, and was chairman of the UK Business Angels Association from 2004 to July 2012.[7]

In April 2017, Anthony Clarke and Jenny Tooth sold Angel Capital Group, which owns early-stage technology backer London Business Angels, to state-owned start-up advisory and loans provider Newable.[8]

  1. ^ "Anthony Clarke". Companiesintheuk.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  2. ^ "Our Team | Angel Capital Group". Angelcapital.co.uk. Archived from the original on 7 May 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  3. ^ "£300K London Business Angels syndicate investment cornerstones Ownfone's £750k round". UKbusinessangelsassociation.org.uk. 20 November 2014. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  4. ^ "Raising start-up capital a discussion with London's leading angel investors". Imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  5. ^ "Carroll shrugs off rumours", The Observer, 1 July 1990, The Observer, p. 26.
  6. ^ "Anthony Clark CEO/Co-Founder, Angel Capital Group Ltd". Bloomberg.
  7. ^ "London Business Angels, Interview with CEO Anthony Clarke". FinSMEs. 11 January 2013.
  8. ^ "Investing duo sell Angel Capital Group to Newable". Evening Standard.