Our team demonstrate extensive industry expertise, outstanding consulting skills and a proven delivery track record



Nick Kent
Chief Executive Officer (Group)

Nick is the Group Chief Executive Officer of Alpha. Previously Nick was a Senior Partner at Accenture where he ran the Asset Management practice.

Nick has over 25 years of experience consulting across all aspects of asset management business with particular emphasis around addressing complex operations and IT issues. Nick has also worked extensively internationally including the US, Switzerland and the Netherlands.




Nick Baker
Chief Financial Officer (Group)

Nick is the Group Chief Financial Officer of Alpha. Before co-founding Alpha, Nick was a senior member of Accenture’s Financial Services strategy practice.  He is well known in the market for particular expertise in outsourcing, complex operational change, M&A and product development and advises Management Boards across Europe.

Nick holds a double starred first in Experimental Psychology from Cambridge University.



 

Luc Baque
Chief Executive Officer (France)

Luc is the Chief Executive Officer of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting SAS, the French subsidiary of Alpha.  Before joining Alpha, Luc spent 5 years with UBS in Paris and was Head of Change Management.  Prior to that, Luc spent 6 years with Solving International, a management consultancy, specialising in asset and wealth management in Europe.



 

Neil Curham
Director (UK)

Neil is a Director at Alpha FMC joining 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. 



 

Greg Faragher-Thomas
Director (UK)

Greg has over 10 years experience within the asset management area with emphasis around the front office IT space dealing with both traditional and alternative managers. Before joining Alpha, Greg spent 5 years with Charles River Development and prior to that 4 years with Bluebay Asset Management and JPM Asset Management respectively. Greg holds a degree in economics.



 

Euan Fraser
Chief Executive Officer (UK)

Euan is the UK Chief Executive Officer of Alpha and joined in October 2004. Before joining Alpha, Euan was a Director at Synagir management consultancy with responsibility for asset management. Euan has several years financial services experience with Merrill Lynch and KPMG. Euan is a Chartered Accountant and a graduate of Edinburgh University.



 

Richard Goddard
Director (Luxembourg)

Richard is a Director of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting S.A. (Luxembourg). After completing his DPhil at the University of Oxford, he started his career in the UK with Price Waterhouse, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant. Richard moved to Luxembourg in 1991 and subsequently held various senior positions with ABN AMRO and Fleming Asset Management. Most recently, he was Head of European Funds at ABN AMRO Asset Management.



 

Bo Lantorp
Director (UK)

Bo is a Director of Alpha. Before joining Alpha, he was a senior member of the Corporate Strategy Team at National Australia Group Europe. Prior to that Bo spent 10 years with Accenture and was a senior member of their Financial Services Strategy Practice. He has also worked as an independent consultant in the asset management industry. Bo holds an MBA from the Stockholm School of Economics.



 

Stuart McNulty
Director (UK)

Stuart is a Director of 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



 

Shibu Nair
Executive Vice President (US)

Shibu is an Executive Vice President of the US subsidiary of Alpha Financial Markets Consulting Group, which includes Omega Contracts.  Shibu joined Alpha FMC in September 2010, prior to which he was an independent consultant with hedge fund SAC Capital and a Senior Manager with Accenture's capital markets practice in New York.

Shibu holds a MBA in Finance from the Stern School of Business, New York University