Entrepreneurial Finance

Simon Hulme is an award-winning Professor at UCL School of Management, where he has lectured in Entrepreneurial Finance since 2013. He is also Programme Director of the MSc Entrepreneurship programme. Simon is an active Business Angel investor having made around 40 investments. At the age of 24 he started his first business, Frame Express, a chain of fast picture framing shops, which was sold it to a public company in 1989. Simon then co-founded Card Connection with Chris Drew in 1992, a greeting card publisher distributing through over 100 franchisees in the UK and Ireland. The business was one of the ten largest UK greeting publishers and was sold to American Greetings Inc in 2008, and is today a key division of their UK business. Teaching awards: Best teacher on MSc Entrepreneurship 2014⁄15 and 2015⁄16.

Chris Drew acts as a consultant to start-up and early stage businesses, specialising in the provision of financial modeling services. Prior to this, his career spanned a range of activities from corporate planner in a FTSE 100 company, to finance director of both Frame Express and Card Connection, to managing director of a pioneering financial services company, to designer and licensor of a proprietary investment management model. He is a graduate of Lancaster University, in Management Sciences, and later studied Investment Management at the London Business School.