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ENRA Group is the parent company of three brands providing specialist financial services and products. The Group first entered the specialist finance market back in 2002, and was formed in 2013 by CEO Danny Waters. The Enra Group now incorporates both broking and lending of specialist finance products.

Through acquisitions and expansion, Enra has become one of Europe’s fastest growing property finance and specialist lending groups, gaining a spot on the list on the Financial Times’ FT1000 ‘The complete list of Europe’s fastest growing companies’ in 2018 and both the Financial Times’ Fast Track and Profit Track 100 throughout 2014-2017.

The Group currently employs almost 200 staff, originating £1billion of mortgages p.a and generating £30m EBITDA.

Enra group is a privately held company and majority shareholders include Exponent Private Equity, which acquired a majority stake in Enra Group in 2016.

History
Enra Group now operates three businesses in specialist property finance; Enterprise Finance, West One Loans and Vantage Finance.

The origins of the Group begin at Enterprise Finance. Danny Waters joined Enterprise Finance a year after it was established in 2002, becoming Managing Director in 2005. Danny then went on to lead the business through multiple M&A transactions, both buying and selling. This began with the management buyout of Enterprise Finance in 2009.

Enra Group was created with the launch of lending business Aura Finance in 2013.

West One Loans was founded externally in 2005 and acquired by Enra with investment from private equity firm Livingbridge in 2014. West One loans has since then incorporated the operations of Aura Finance.

In 2016, Exponent Private Equity acquired a majority stake in the ENRA Group for an undisclosed sum. In 2018. Enra Group completed the acquisition of specialist lending distributor Vantage Finance, founded in 2004.

Executive Team
As of July 2020, the executive team of ENRA Group is as following:


 * Danny Waters, Group CEO
 * Emily Gestetner, Group CFO
 * Stephen Hogg, Group COO
 * James Wheeler, Group CIO
 * David Stewart, Board Chairman
 * Lucy Barrett, Managing Director, Vantage Finance
 * Harry Landy, Managing Director, Enterprise Finance
 * Marie Grundy, Lending Sales Director, West One Loans
 * Andrew Ferguson, Buy-to-Let Managing Director, West One Loans
 * Clive Smalley, Group Finance Director
 * Paul Simpson, Lending Operations Director
 * Jackie Steel, Group Compliance Officer
 * Haley McPherson, Group Marketing Director
 * Ed McAra, Head of Risk, West One Loans
 * Sid Radia, Head of Group Servicing
 * Guy Murray, Head of Development Finance, West One Loans