Jon Moulton made it on to the first FN100 list in 2005 as one of the founders of the European private equity industry and one of its best-known figures. He has since left the turnaround firm he founded, having been unsuccessful in convincing its investors to wind up the firm, and launched Better Capital.

At the time he was running the turnaround firm he founded, Alchemy Partners. He left that firm last year, criticising heavily the remaining management in his parting letter to investors.