Neil MacDougall
Senior Advisor
Neil MacDougall, joined the pan-European, mid-market buyout firm Silverfleet in 1989, led the buyout of the company from Prudential plc in 2007, and was Managing Partner from 2004 to 2019. He served as Chairman of the BVCA (British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association) in 2020 and joined the UKBAA (UK Business Angels Association) board in 2022.
As an active angel investor, Neil focuses on hard tech and Enterprise SaaS, showing a keen interest in sustainability. He also chairs Sophora Unternehmerkapital, a PE investor in the DACH region. Before Silverfleet, Neil was a management consultant at Bain & Co. He holds an MA from Cambridge University.