Michael Anderson is a high-profile business investor with extensive experience raising finance and managing several small companies. In 1985, following the sale of his family's chocolate business, Michael invested in a small printing business and ran it for nine years. He took the company into a specialised niche in non-security plastic cards and later sold the company to an Irish conglomerate.
Michael now has a number of roles, all with small and medium-sized enterprises. He is a mentor for NESTA, a director of Business Plan Services Ltd and a non-executive director of three companies. He gives regular talks on business plan writing and angel investment.