about us
Social Business Builders was setup by Craig Dearden-Phillips and Noah Isserman, two career entrepreneurs who were (and remain) incredibly passionate about social business and social impact. ​
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We exist to support fellow entrepreneurs who aim to build and grow businesses that tangibly improve the lives of people in our society. Every year we work with impact ventures in all sectors, in all parts of the UK, helping them to develop their ideas and achieve their next level of scale and influence.
taking you to the next level.
meet the team
Each of our Builders has a wide breadth of skills and contacts, both of which are key to building social ventures. Some of our Builders are investors themselves and have deep relationships with our wider network of angels and social investment funds.
Craig Dearden-Phillips
Co-founder
Craig started VoiceAbility, a mental health support business at the age of 24 and left in 2010. Today it is a £10m turnover social business employing over 300 people and working with thousands of clients every year. Over the last 15 years Craig has worked with over 50 founders of leading social businesses across working across public services.
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Craig also runs the Stepping Out Foundation, a seed-funding foundation for early businesses with a social purpose. Craig sits on the Board of Social and Sustainable Capital Trust, has written three books on social business and teaches at Cass Business School and Anglia Ruskin University (where he holds an Honorary Doctorate).
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Noah Isserman
Co-founder
Noah is faculty director of the Origin Ventures Academy for Entrepreneurial Leadership at the University of Illinois, where he co-founded and directs the award-winning iVenture Accelerator and Illinois Social Innovation.
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As visiting Assistant Professor of Business Administration, he was part of the four-person design team for the $48 million Siebel Center for Design, and has served as a strategist for the $1.2 billion Discovery Partners Institute, $38 million Illinois Innovation Network, and $59 million I-ACT autonomous transportation research facility.
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