[3] Moulton is originally from Stoke-on-Trent, and suffered ill health at an early age due to the coal smoke in the area.
[7] Later that year he criticised the accountancy profession for a loss of integrity in due diligence work on private equity buyouts.
[12] The fund made 9 investments, including a management buyout of the UK arm of Reader's Digest in a £13 million deal with the company's administrator, Moore Stephens[13] and purchased the luxury motor yacht manufacturer Fairline Boats (based in Oundle) from 3i, at a cost of approximately £35 million.
[15] Better Capital raised a second fund in 2012 which made 6 investments: City Link, Everest, iNTERTAIN, Jaeger, Northern Aerospace and SPOT.
[20] Other personal investments include: Ashmore, Funding Circle, The Guernsey Pub Company, Manolete Partners and Atom Bank.
[21] Moulton is a member of the Board of the Corporate Finance Faculty of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and a director of the think tank, The Centre for Policy Studies.
Since its inception, the charity has funded over 150 clinical trials which have been selected based on high quality science with the potential to have a direct benefit to patients.
[26] In the 2024 Birthday Honours, Moulton was appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) for charitable service.