Mark Lyttleton | Business Mentor
Mark Lyttleton is a business mentor who helps founders and small business owners navigate the considerable challenges involved in establishing, running and scaling a successful enterprise. Mark Lyttleton is also the founder and chair of trustees of Percent for Good, a charity launched to enable professionals to support charitable causes by donating a percentage of their salary.
This blog will feature posts drawing on Mark Lyttleton’s extensive entrepreneurial, investment and business strategy experience, delving into topics such as corporate social responsibility, early-stage investing and stock market investing. It will also incorporate posts outlining Mr Lyttleton’s philanthropic endeavours, including updates on the impact of Percent for Good, and provide information about payroll giving and how to give efficiently.
Angel Investor
As an angel investor and business mentor, Mark Lyttleton has provided both pro-bono and paid services, supporting enterprises across a broad range of industries. In addition to offering strategic and financial support, Mr Lyttleton provided personal advice, helping founders to negotiate the considerable pressures that come with building a business and encouraging them to achieve a healthy and sustainable work-life balance. Mr Lyttleton’s role as an angel investor has seen him acquire interests in over 30 businesses, operating with a keen focus on supporting enterprises launched to create a positive planetary impact.
Career History
Prior to embarking on his current vocation, Mark Lyttleton worked in the financial services industry, serving as lead manager for an equity retail fund with assets of circa $7 billion. He worked as a fund manager for Merrill Lynch, and in this role was credited for growing assets from $250 million to $4 billion thanks to a combination of astute asset gathering and strong fund performance, ranking as the UK’s top performing fund manager in 2005.
Philanthropy
Today, Mark Lyttleton’s interests predominantly lie in helping others and providing the benefit of his knowledge and experience, drawing on both his successes and mistakes. Fostering a sense of collaboration within the companies he supports, he has a particular interest in how the mind operates and works, having qualified as a meditation teacher and completed his certification to become an Associate Pranic Healer.
Going forward, Mark Lyttleton’s charity work with Percent for Good is growing in importance, providing a valuable channel through which to give back to society. The organisation’s vision is to encourage 100% of senior management and 50% of employees in participating firms to pledge 1% of their salary to charitable causes, driving positive social and environmental change by supporting the enabling sectors of health and wellbeing, education and arts, social mobility, cost of living and the environment.