Following his appointment as a senior adviser in November 2011, Lex Greensill advised the government on supply chain finance until March 2017. He also founded Greensill Capital, which was a subcontractor to Taulia as part of its November 2017 bid to provide supply chain finance services to the public sector. Greensill Capital was incorporated in June 2012. Lex Greensill was a government adviser for supply chain finance in the Cabinet Office between 2012 and 2015. He continued to provide market and pricing advice to government on supply chain finance. He attended a key meeting in March 2017 which considered the setting up of a government framework agreement for supply chain finance.11