Alan is an experienced COO and CFO in the financial services sector.  Before Global Investment Management Services, he worked for long-only investment managers and leading alternative investment management firms operating across multiple legal jurisdictions, including First Avenue Partners Group (a global institutional capital placement business) the Cambridge Place Group (a specialist credit hedge fund) with Citigroup Asset Management, and with International Financial Markets Trading (one of London’s first hedge funds).  Alan’s financial services career commenced with the Chase Manhattan Capital Markets Group working in London and New York.  He has also worked with entrepreneurs to set up investment businesses (usually regulated).

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.

Stephen Kimbell is a specialist in business strategy and deal doing. He is an investor, an entrepreneur and an experienced non-executive director. He trained and worked for a number of years with the major city law firm Slaughter & May before moving to Chicago to work with a multinational pharmaceutical company doing their mergers and acquisitions work. Returning to the UK he set up Kimbells LLP, a specialist corporate law firm.

Apart from his consultancy work, Stephen is a visiting Fellow at Cranfield School of Management where he teaches on the MBA course. Stephen has also held directorships and consultancy posts in a number of companies.