This York company is led by husband and wife John Forsyth and Suzanne Marshall-Forsyth. It helps organisations to buy and manage their software and says it supplies 2m software licences a year to public sector bodies, housing associations and corporations. It has also developed a tool that manages licences for clients including American Express and the mining giant Anglo American. Phoenix Software links up with resellers abroad to target the European and American markets and its international sales have risen 160% a year, from £607,000 in 2009 to £4.1m in 2011.