Did a bit of Googling on this:

- Enterprise Inns is the landlord but won't be running the pub directly.

- a new company called Hippo Inns will run the pub. Apparently it's a joint venture between Enterprise Inns and Rupert Clevely, who created a chain of gastro pubs called Geronimo Inns and later sold them to Young's.

- blurb from one of their job adverts:

"Rupert Clevely, founder of Geronimo Inns is launching Hippo Inns, a vibrant and energetic new company out to serve great fresh food, local beer and fantastic cocktails. We believe the pub should be the hub of the local community and we are looking for someone who can bring people together and create that home from home environment.

We want to work with the best of the best from our suppliers to our staff. We work with niche local producers to well established brands that help to inspire our team and give our customers a unique and beautiful product.

We are a young and creative team of people who will launch our first baby Hippo in Forest Hill at the end of September. Our family will grow quickly, with pubs of all shapes and sizes, so the potential to learn and develop as a Manager is huge. We believe that life is too short to not enjoy your job, so we want to find people who love and care about what they do who will share their ideas and have fun."

- blurb from the Sous Chef advert:

"Our food offer aims to move away from the 5 starters and 5 mains of British classics that you see in many gastro pubs. It harks back to the simplicity of open fire cooking from when Alehouses were first born. We aim to use the best British ingredients we can and to serve them respectfully, with little fuss. The preparation and management of our ingredients is as integral to us as the cooking, from our Gloucestershire smoked fish to our London baked Sourdoughs everything requires love and attention. The menu at The Signal revolves around our English charcoal fire pit that feeds the spit and the robata style grill, so experience with live fire cooking is essential."

- Hippo Inns have a website but there's nothing on it yet. I tried to sign up for the newsletter but it didn't work. http://www.hippoinns.com