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=== Who are the key members of the team? === The management team has a wealth of experience in the financial services/markets industry. ==== Executive ==== ===== Global Chief Executive Officer: Euan Fraser ===== Euan has served as Global Chief Executive Officer of Alpha since 2013. During this period, the business has increased EBITDA almost seven-fold, and he has led the Group through two private equity transitions and a public listing on the London Stock Exchange’s AIM in 2017. Euan was previously Chief Executive Officer of Alpha UK, starting in April 2011, where he established both Alpha’s M&A Integration and Operations & Outsourcing practices. He joined Alpha in 2004 and has over 20 years’ financial services experience, having worked at Merrill Lynch and KPMG, where he qualified as a chartered accountant. Euan keeps the skills to support and deliver the Group’s strategy up to date through his role as Chief Executive Officer of a global consulting firm operating within the financial services sector. In this role, Euan has to understand and manage the interests of a range of stakeholders, including employees, clients, competitors and investors. Euan maintains a number of strong industry relationships that involve sharing of knowledge and perspectives. On 1st April 2023, Euan will be succeeded as CEO and as a board member by Luc Baqué, who is currently the Global Head of Asset & Wealth Management Consulting at Alpha. Luc, aged 46, joined Alpha in 2010 to create the Paris Office. He became Head of Europe in 2016 and Global Head of Asset & Wealth Management Consulting in 2020. Luc has more than 20 years of industry experience. Prior to joining Alpha, he spent five years with UBS in Paris as head of change management and six years with Solving International, a strategy management consultancy, specialising in Financial Services. Euan has agreed to remain with the Group as a Strategic Adviser. ===== Global Chief Financial Officer: John Paton ===== John is a chartered accountant with 23 years of corporate finance, banking and audit experience. He joined from HSBC where he was a Director in the UK Mid-Market Advisory team (2007-12), the Corporate Origination team (2012-16) and latterly, the UK Banking team (2016-2018). Over his 11 year tenure he advised on a variety of M&A transactions and led loan financings for UK corporates. Prior to this he spent more than five years at MacArthur & Co. focusing on capital raisings including AIM IPOs. John started his career at KPMG, where he spent nearly seven years, working across financial services audit and risk management with exposure to financial reporting requirements, governance, risk & internal controls and systems’ implementation. He is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of Scotland, graduated LLB (Hons) from the University of Aberdeen and holds an Executive MBA from the University of Bristol & École Nationale des Ponts & Chaussées, France. John joined Alpha in February 2018. ===== Global Chief Commercial Officer: Nick Fienberg ===== Nick has 15 years of experience consulting in the financial services, and in particular the capital markets sector. Specialising in asset management outsourcing, he has worked with a wide range of clients on advisory and implementation roles covering large scale outsourcing and organisational change initiatives, strategic business studies and market trend analysis. ===== Global Chief Operating Officer: Sarah Peacock ===== Sarah is Alpha’s Global Chief Operating Officer. She joined Alpha in 2008. Before moving into business operations, she spent over 10 years in asset and wealth management consulting with experience performing both project management and functional roles, and working extensively on implementation and business transformation projects. As COO, Sarah is responsible for overseeing operations functions globally including IT & infrastructure, data privacy, people and talent management, service delivery and knowledge management. ===== Global Head - Aiviq: Lee Griggs ===== Lee is the Global Head of Aiviq. Lee has a record of international business building with over 20 years experience, providing market leading enterprise and SaaS solutions to leading financial institutions. Lee has extensive knowledge of strategy creation, execution and expansion and has a proven track record in business development, process management and organisational optimisation. ===== Global Chief Client Officer and Head of UK - Asset & Wealth Management Consulting: Stuart McNulty ===== Stuart is the Global Chief Client Officer & Head of UK for Asset & Wealth Management Consulting at Alpha. Stuart began his career at Accenture, where he specialised in the capital markets sector, leading projects ranging from system implementations to process change initiatives. Stuart then moved to J.P. Morgan, where he ran strategic projects within the credit exotics and hybrids middle office team, before joining Alpha in 2007. Since then, Stuart has worked on a wide variety of asset management projects, including new product development, competitive analysis, rate card reviews and large-scale onboarding programmes. Stuart holds a First Class honours degree in Computer Science from the University of Sheffield. Head of North America - Asset & Wealth Management Consulting: Joe Morant Joe is Head of North America for Asset & Wealth Management Consulting at Alpha. Prior to joining Alpha Joe held operations and technology leadership roles at Nuveen Investments and BNY Mellon Asset Management. Joe has also held executive management positions at several service provider and consulting firms. Joe has worked extensively across the US and Europe, consulting to a range of leading asset managers. He has a breadth of experience across all aspects of the asset management business ranging from major change programs to corporate strategy and operating model definition. Global Head of Innovation - Asset & Wealth Management Consulting: Neil Curham Neil joined Alpha in April 2011 as a result of the acquisition of Tomtom Consultants. Neil established Tomtom Consultants in 2005 to become the leading consultant to distribution in investment management. Neil has fifteen years experience working within investment management distribution and has more than eight years consultancy experience. During this time, Neil has assisted with business, operational and technical strategy addressing areas such as service proposition, client relationship management, client communications, marketing automation and web delivery. Executive Director and Global Head of Distribution - Asset & Wealth Management Consulting: Mike Smith Mike has over 20 years’ consulting experience and is an Executive Director and the Global Head of Alpha’s Distribution Practice, advising Asset Managers globally across their Sales, Marketing, Client Service and Product functions. Mike specialises in Distribution Transformation, including Strategy, Operating Models, Process Optimisation, Distribution Technology, Client Experience, Distribution Data & Analytics. ==== Board ==== ===== Independent Non-Executive Chairman: Ken Fry N (Chair), A, R ===== Ken joined the Alpha Board in 2016, following almost 10 years as the Global Chief Operating Officer at Aberdeen Asset Management. He was appointed the Board’s Non-Executive Chairman in February 2018. Ken has over 27 years’ experience in financial services, and has considerable experience integrating acquisitions within the investment management industry. Ken has a strong technology and operations background, and has undertaken a number of transformational projects during his career. He directed the integration of many major acquisitions while at Aberdeen Asset Management, including assets acquired from Deutsche Asset Management, Credit Suisse Asset Management and Scottish Widows Investment Partners. Ken keeps the skills to support and deliver the Group’s strategy up to date by maintaining a wide network of contacts within investment management globally. He regularly attends conferences and discussion forums to keep abreast of industry issues and meets with both clients and investors. He also advises on M&A strategy within the investment management industry. ===== Global Chief Executive Officer: Euan Fraser ===== For the profile, see the 'executive' team section of this report, above. ===== Global Chief Financial Officer: John Paton ===== For the profile, see the 'executive' team section of this report, above. ===== Non-Executive Director: Penny Judd R (Chair), A, N ===== Penny joined the Alpha Board as a Non-Executive Director in February 2018, having previously held the roles of Managing Director and EMEA Head of Compliance at both Nomura International plc and UBS AG. Penny has a strong public markets and financial services background, with over 30 years’ experience in compliance, regulation, corporate finance and audit. She is also a chartered accountant and is currently Non-Executive Director and Chair of Audit Committee for both Trufin plc and Team17 Group plc. Penny keeps the skills to support and deliver the Group’s strategy up to date through her experience gained on other listed company boards, while also maintaining a wide network of contacts in financial services and regulation. She attends various conferences and events covering relevant industry and governance matters, and meets with a range of advisers and institutional investors in AIM and main market companies. ===== Independent Non-Executive Director: Jill May A, N, R ===== Jill joined the Alpha Board as a Non-Executive Director in July 2020. She has over 20 years’ experience in investment banking, with her executive career spent working in corporate finance for SG Warburg & Co. Ltd from 1985 to 1995, and senior positions in Group Strategy at UBS where she was a Managing Director from 2001 to 2012. She was a Panel Member from 2013 to 2018 and a Non-Executive Director from 2013 to 2016 of the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA), and a Non-Executive Director of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) from 2015 to 2019. Jill is currently an External Member of the Prudential Regulation Committee at the Bank of England. Her current listed company experience includes her roles as Non-Executive Director of Standard Life Investments Property Income Trust Limited, JP Morgan Claverhouse Investment Trust plc and Ruffer Investment Company Limited. ===== Non-Executive Director: Maeve Byrne A (Chair), N, R ===== Maeve is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in Ireland and has over 30 years’ experience in Financial Services. She started her career as an auditor with KPMG Ireland and worked in several other KPMG international offices in Europe and North America. Within KPMG, Maeve moved from Audit to Transaction Services where she was a Financial Services Partner from 2002 to 2014. From 2010 to 2013, Maeve was seconded to Royal Bank of Scotland and the Non-Core Division where she was CFO and a member of the Group Finance Board & Risk and Control Committee. From 2014 to 2017, she held senior executive roles at the Royal Bank of Scotland in Capital Resolutions Group and Williams & Glyn. Since 2017, Maeve has focused on transformation services, offering Board advisory services as an independent consultant. She has worked with Financial Services companies including Santander and clients in the Fintech/Neo bank space.
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