Most recently COO at First Avenue Partners Group, a global institutional capital placement business with offices in four countries, and operating across multiple legal jurisdictions.

Prior to joining First Avenue, he was CFO at the Cambridge Place Group, a credit-specialist hedge fund based in London and Boston.  His experience also encompassed two years as a consultant advising alternative vehicles (and seeking to acquire an offshore fund administrator), and five years with Citigroup Asset Management, initially as an MD and Chief Administrative Officer of Smith Barney’s fixed income division, and latterly after the merger of Citibank and Travelers Group as business manager for European Centres.

Prior to that, he worked with entrepreneurs to set up two hedge funds.  Alan’s first alternative investment experience was with International Financial Markets Trading one of London’s first hedge funds with offices in London and Hong Kong.  His financial services career commenced with the Chase Manhattan Capital Markets Group working in London and New York.

During his career, Alan has managed multi-disciplinary teams including operations, legal, operational risk,   IT, finance, HR and regulatory compliance;

He has substantial experience working with entrepreneurs to create, develop and manage independent businesses including hedge funds (investing in a range of financial instruments), funds of hedge funds, real estate and private equity funds, own account trading firms, and capital placement businesses, some of which had complex accounting and valuations.

Alan has worked for two major US banks and two of London's leading hedge fund firms.

He is a UK Chartered Accountant, holds an MSc from the London Business School and is a member of the UK Chartered Institute for Securities and Investment.