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About Us

The Broker Hub was founded and designed to revolutionise the way that brokers and lenders collaborate. It offers a seamless, innovative business platform that integrates deep experience across its board of directors together with technology, finance, regulatory support, and strategic services for co-invested ventures.

We recognised that the UK broker marketplace needed to evolve. Our vision was to create an environment led by senior and established individuals where people could work with us to start, grow, or enhance their broker proposition. The aim is simple: to help people build a business that becomes operational without them, generates ongoing recurring revenue, creates enterprise value, and ultimately provides a viable exit.

The Broker Hub solves a fundamental market problem. Being a broker is a cash-up-front drug. It provides autonomy and flexibility, yet most brokerages stop the day the founder stops. Without significant investment in people, systems, and structure, the business has no residual value.

Our platform changes this. By operating across three core models — Incubator, Accelerator and Partner — we help founders build something scalable, valuable and enduring.

About Us

The Broker Hub was founded and designed to revolutionise the way that brokers and lenders collaborate. It offers a seamless, innovative business platform that integrates deep experience across its board of directors together with technology, finance, regulatory support, and strategic services for co-invested ventures.

We recognised that the UK broker marketplace needed to evolve. Our vision was to create an environment led by senior and established individuals where people could work with us to start, grow, or enhance their broker proposition. The aim is simple: to help people build a business that becomes operational without them, generates ongoing recurring revenue, creates enterprise value, and ultimately provides a viable exit.

The Broker Hub solves a fundamental market problem. Being a broker is a cash-up-front drug. It provides autonomy and flexibility, yet most brokerages stop the day the founder stops. Without significant investment in people, systems, and structure, the business has no residual value.

Our platform changes this. By operating across three core models — Incubator, Accelerator and Partner — we help founders build something scalable, valuable and enduring.

Our Vision

We aim to reshape the broker–lender ecosystem by building businesses that last. Our vision is to empower talented people to create scalable, technology-enabled, compliant brokerages that generate long-term enterprise value, recurring revenue and meaningful exits. We want our partners to benefit from a platform that amplifies their potential, protects their culture, strengthens customer relationships and delivers growth that continues long after the founder steps away.

Meet Our Team

Philip White

Chief Executive Officer

Philip is a multi-disciplined C-Suite director with specific experience in cross functional executive leadership within financial services. Philip has previously held the regulatory approvals FCA CF1 Director & PRA SMF3 Executive Director regulatory status.

He currently holds a number of non-executive board positions within various stages from scale-up through to high growth and exit within commercial finance organisations. In addition to a number of executive roles within industry regulatory and advisory groups. Within these roles he has led a private equity backed leveraged management buyout, focused on providing specialist funding for the UK professions sector, SMEs and academia and led and scaled a newly established Commercial Division consolidating the resources and integrated business proposition of protection, insurance and funding.

Martin Stanley

Director

A career spanning 30 years in commercial financial services with leadership experience across origination and distribution, credit and operations with Lloyds, Bank of Scotland, Rothschild and most recently CEO at Close Brothers Specialist Asset Finance.

Martine Catton

Chief Commercial Officer

Martine is a multi-disciplined C Suite director having worked with Global brands and PE backed start-ups. Most recently she has held CEO roles for a number of alternative finance providers. Her focus has always been SMEs and developing products that provide funding solutions to support their growth.

Martine was part of the Genesis Committee established to signpost access to finance at a government level.

Martine currently holds non-executive directorships and has been a director of both industry and lobbying associations with SME funding being at the heart of any roles undertaken.

Andrew Weedy

Chief Finance Officer

Andrew has worked in finance for more than 25 years, starting his career within accountancy & audit practice before making the move to commercial finance, working for such large FMCG companies as Warburtons, Quorn and Glanbia Plc as well as PE Backed businesses and investment banks.

Within the group and alongside his team, he streamlines all finance procedures, creates board packs, maintains and develops management accounts, whilst constantly working to develop new finance strategies that can be tailored to individual businesses.

Chris Smith

Director

Chris is a seasoned leader in asset finance and structured lending, with expertise spanning AF, invoice finance, commodities, and commercial real estate. He has a track record of scaling finance businesses, developing high-performance teams, and structuring funding lines across the UK and Europe. Chris’s leadership combines deep regulatory knowledge with operational rigour and strategic vision, with a focus on unlocking capital for complex and underserved asset classes.

Sean Read

Director

A highly experienced C-suite director with over 40 years spent in Financial Services across a diverse range of lending products and market sectors. A Chartered Banker and Chartered Director, he has previously held SMF18 and SMF24 approved person roles. He has worked within a variety of ownership structures, including a private equity-backed MBO.

With a strong credit and operational leadership background, he has significant experience from scale up to exit and recently led the successful run-off and de-banking of a small bank following acquisition. Although he has led teams in origination and distribution, his primary focus is delivering operational transformation aligned to organisational strategy.

A word from entrepreneurs supported by our group

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‘It was a seamless process from the beginning. I was able to just focus on generating income while the back office was catered for by a fantastic team of finance, marketing, HR, and IT support, allowing me to focus on sales and growing the business’

Shaun
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'Having started a business previously I was sceptical of what they could add in terms of value. However, 24 months in, and having doubled the business twice, the support and guidance of the group has been second to none and met all my high expectations. With values that match my own at the core of the business I’m excited to see where we’ll be in another 24 months'

Tom
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'The support and guidance provided by the team has been invaluable. They have deep knowledge and experience across business strategy, finance, legal and helping with day-to-day recruitment challenges. Year on year our growth has compounded, and we look forward to the heights we can reach.'

Elliot
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'Being part of a larger group has had many benefits and it’s clear we wouldn’t have had the exceptional growth without the involvement of and support of the groups infrastructure and experience in business. Today, we have a strong team and the future looks very bright'

John

A word from entrepreneurs supported by our group

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‘It was a seamless process from the beginning. I did my role of delivering fees, while the back office was catered for by a fantastic team of finance, marketing, HR, and IT support, allowing me to focus on sales and growing the business’

Shaun
“

'Having started a business previously I was sceptical of what they could add in terms of value. However, 24 months in, and having doubled the business twice, the support and guidance of the group has been second to none and met all my high expectations. With values that match my own at the core of the business I’m excited to see where we’ll be in another 24 months'

Tom
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'The support and guidance provided by the team has been invaluable. They have deep knowledge and experience across business strategy, finance, legal and helping with day-to-day recruitment challenges. Year on year our growth has compounded, and we look forward to the heights we can reach'

Elliot
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.Being part of a larger group has had many benefits and it’s clear we wouldn’t have had the exceptional growth without the involvement of and support of the groups infrastructure and experience in business. Today, we have a strong team and the future looks very bright'

John