Richard Sanders
Invest · Create value · Positive social impact — London
Twenty-five years in and around private equity value creation. Founder of Sullivan Street Partners, built from a standing start to multiple exits at over 5x money on money in sixteen years, without compromising on values. Chair and non-executive advisor across more than thirty exits, working alongside management teams on the financial, social and cultural sides of the businesses they built. A believer in people, in doing things properly, and in follow-through.
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Aligned Empowered Ltd
A vehicle for non-executive and social-impact work. Aligning teams behind strategic goals and empowering people to make decisions and progress towards them.
Ancora Group
National marine infrastructure group — coastal defence, dredging and flood risk management — built around Teignmouth Maritime Services, Hesselberg-Hydro and Marine Plant Hire.
The Barton Partnership
Specialist recruitment organisation and B Corp, focused on placing and advising talent in strategy development and delivery.
Boards, ventures and exits
Every result below belongs to the management team that built it. This is where he sat alongside them.
Founded to take controlling stakes in businesses and actively improve them. Built a portfolio stewarding over 2,000 staff across eight entities.
Bristol's inland surf lake. Rebuilt the marketing, brand positioning and events offer around wellbeing for everybody.
Advisory practice, backed by a 10,000-member community, helping organisations move towards fairness and meritocracy.
Tier-one highways and rail contractor carved out of the Geoffrey Osborne Group; built a new back office and strategy.
Events and experience business behind the Savour food festival, Fume and the Wingjam Chicken Wing festival.
Early-stage concepts for more efficient deep-water wind turbine deployment.
Caribbean-born, cask-aged spirit. Backed from first raise through to over 25,000 bottles a year.
Medical staffing and services business, supplying vetted professionals to primary and acute healthcare providers.
National grounds maintenance business, built on local recruitment, community projects and a regional identity.
Specialist pharmaceutical and healthcare packaging. Productivity up more than 20% since acquisition.
Walk-in clinic, telephone and email GP consultations, vaccinations and tests.
UK market leader in security for vacant commercial and residential property, over 500 employees.
UK market leader in the design and manufacture of steel waste and recycling containers.
Carbon foot-printing and behaviour-change rewards platform, then known as Carbon River.
Before the boards
Strategy for the £7bn group — business development, customer insight and the Partnership credit card. Sat on the Partners' Council.
Interim leadership, turnarounds and 100-day plans for corporate and private equity clients.
Strategy assignments across Europe in business services, financial services, retail and FMCG.
Operational improvement work across more than 100 private equity deals.
Board role at a family-run manufacturing business — procurement, factory layout and modernisation.
Grounding
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