Paul Robinson

Founder & Executive Chairman

Role

Paul founded Alquity in 2010 and is responsible for developing Alquity’s future strategy and driving growth through uncovering new opportunities and raising awareness across all stakeholders.

Biography

Paul has an HND in Business and Finance from Brighton University as well as attending executive leadership programmes at Harvard, INSEAD and London Business School.

Paul has spent the last 20 years building businesses, mainly within the financial services and fund management sector. A keen social entrepreneur, Paul funded and helped build Global Ethics, an ethical goods company operating businesses under the “One” Brand which have generated over £15m in donations to date.

These experiences led Paul to found Alquity, a business that uses social responsibility as a competitive financial advantage.

Brad Crombie

CEO

Role

Chief Executive Officer

Biography

Previously Mr. Crombie was Global Head of Fixed Income at Aberdeen Asset Management, now a part of Standard Life Aberdeen PLC, a FTSE 100-listed asset manager, where he served on the company’s executive committee as well as Director of its principal UK operating subsidiaries. Prior to joining Aberdeen, Mr. Crombie was Managing Director and Head of EMEA Non-Financials Credit Research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch. He started his investing career in European High Yield.

Mr. Crombie also serves on the Business Strategy Committee of the Global Risk Institute in Financial Services and the Advisory Group on McGill University in the UK and Europe. From 2015 to 2018, Mr. Crombie served as a founding member of the Advisory Council of the FICC Market Standards Board (FMSB), the body created following the UK’s Fair and Effective Markets Review (FEMR), initially serving on its Conduct & Ethics Sub-Committee.

He graduated from McGill University with a BA Degree in History and Political Science and an MA Degree in History and went on to read History in the PhD. programme at the University of Cambridge.

Janet Akala

Interim Chief Operating Officer/Chief Financial Officer

Role

Janet is responsible for all of Alquity’s operations, finance and compliance functions, and joined the team in January 2019.

Biography

Janet is a Chartered Accountant responsible for all of Alquity’s operations, finance and compliance functions.

Prior to joining Alquity, Janet has held a number of exec level roles within growing SME international firms. She has 19 years of experience mainly with regulated financial institutions, which has included JP Morgan, Deutsche Bank, Park Square Capital and Local Pensions Partnerships, all private equity and alternative asset funds with multibillion AUMs. She has also worked with a number of start-ups helping to implement scalable finance & operational functions.

Suresh Mistry

Director

Role

Suresh is a Board Director of Alquity and is responsible for clients across the Asia and Middle East regions. He leads the firm’s marketing activity as well as the development of the Alquity team. Suresh was instrumental in establishing the Alquity business at its outset in 2010.

Biography

Suresh holds an MBA from London Business School and a BSc in Biochemistry from the University of Nottingham.

Suresh has over 25 years’ of management experience in senior commercial roles and leading major consulting assignments. Trained in corporate finance at Lloyds Bank, he has worked with the likes of Barclays and 3i on developing and implementing business strategy, specialising in sales and marketing.

Mike Sell

Portfolio Manager & Head of Asian Equities

Role

Mike joined Alquity in 2014 and is responsible for all equity investments across Asia.

Biography

Mike holds a First Class BA in Economics from Southampton University and was awarded the Pearce Rowan prize.

Mike has over 20 years’ experience investing in Asian equities. He joined Baring Asset Management as a graduate trainee in 1994, where he became a member of the Emerging Market Asset Allocation Committee. Mike was then appointed Senior Partner at Thames River/Nevsky Capital, where he grew their Emerging Market assets to US$7bn over 7 years, before moving to F&C with the long only Emerging Market business in 2011.

Roberto Lampl

Portfolio Manager & Head of Emerging Markets Equities ex. Asia

Role

Roberto joined Alquity in 2013 and is responsible for all emerging market equity investments outside Asia.

Biography

Roberto holds a BA in Economics from Boston University and an MBA from F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College.

Roberto has over 20 years’ experience investing in Emerging and Frontier Markets. Having gained a strong foundation in country risk and credit risk analysis at ABN AMRO Bank and FMO, he went onto manage ING Investment Management’s Latin America equity fund, taking it from US$50m to US$500m from 2004 to 2010. During this time he was also co-lead on ING IM’s Global Emerging Markets Equity Funds.

Following ING, Roberto managed Baring’s Latin America equity funds in 2010/2011, and was appointed Head of Global Emerging Market equity funds in 2011, responsible for US$3bn in assets.

Temidayo Iyiola

Investment Analyst

Role

Temi supports Roberto Lampl with the African and Latin American funds by providing fundamental research across the regions on both a macro and micro (stock) level.

Biography

Temi joined Alquity from Deloitte where he was a Manager in the Transfer Pricing division, progressing from a Graduate Analyst to managing teams and projects within 4 years. He is a CFA® charterholder with first time passes in the three Chartered Financial Analyst exams. He is also an exam qualified chartered accountant (ACA) and has a BSc in Biomedical Science from the University of Hull.

Nickesha Grant

Team and Office Administrator

Role

Nickesha joined Alquity in March 2019 and oversees  the efficient operation of the Alquity office, while also providing administrative support for the CEO and Senior Management Team.

Biography

Nickesha enriches the team through a wealth of transferable skills acquired across a varied background from within the education and business sectors respectively. She is currently completing a BA in Business Management with the Open University’s Business School. She is a self-taught Spanish speaker and has professionally lived and worked in Cuba, Spain and China.

Benoit Ribaud

Head of Distribution (Europe & Latin America)

Role

Benoit joined Alquity in 2013 to lead the development of the firm in Europe and Latin America. He is in charge of the relationship management with institutional clients and our distributor network in these regions.

Biography

Benoit holds a MSc in Management from Grenoble Ecole de Management and a MBA from Cardiff University. He speaks French, Spanish and Portuguese.

Prior to joining the firm, he worked for several years as a Senior Analyst for the Mactavish Group, a leading expert in insurance governance and risk management, and a variety of roles in Consulting and International Business Development.

Liam Kelly

Head of Operations

Role

Liam joined Alquity in 2016, and since November 2018 has been responsible for managing operational processes including relationship management with external parties, which includes the fund administrator and management company based in Luxembourg. He also provides data and analytical support for the sales and investment teams.

Biography

Liam holds a BA in History and Politics from the University of Hull, and in 2015 he spent a year in New York interning at Citi Private Bank as a Business Analyst in the Chief Operating Office of the Global Managed Investments department.

Katie Harmer

Operations Analyst

Role

Katie covers a number of operational tasks, procedures and projects to support the operations, sales and investment management teams. This includes daily updates and reconciliation of data for the portfolio management system, day to day management of cash flow, releasing daily prices, reconciliation of internal systems back to third party providers, dealing with invoices, maintaining investor sales data and preparation of sales reports.

Biography

Katie joined Alquity directly from Kent University where she completed an MA in International Relations.

Cynthia Cano

Business Development Manager

Role

Cyn is responsible for the analysis of management information and client data to develop sales strategies and help win new assets and protect existing fund assets. She works alongside the Sales Team to develop and improve Alquity’s Sales Process and leads Latin America sales.

Biography

Cyn graduated with a BS in Economics from Universidad del Pacifico and has a MSc in Psychology of Economic Life from the London School of Economics and Political Science. After working for over 6 years in the insurance sector in Peru, she has wide experience in development consulting and commercial management. Cyn joined the Alquity team in November 2017.
Cyn is passionate about travelling, sports and exotic cuisine.

Gergely Ürmössy

Macro Strategist

Role

Gergely supports the investment team with macro analysis across emerging markets.

Biography

Gergely holds a Master of Economics from the Corvinus University of Budapest, a Master of Economic Policy in Global Markets from the Central European University and is a CFA Level 3 candidate.

Having started his career as a macroeconomic analyst at ING Bank, Gergely joined Alquity from Erste Bank in Hungary, where he spent four years as Chief Economist.

Dan Billis

Investment Analyst

Role

Dan joined Alquity in 2018 and supports Mike Sell with the Asian and Indian Subcontinent funds by providing fundamental research across the regions, on both a macro and micro (stock) level

Biography

He passed the CFA® Level 1 examination on his first attempt and has a 1st Class degree in Economics from the University of Exeter. Dan joined Alquity from Invesco, where he worked as an Account Onboarding Manager.