Senior Partnership Advisory

The Managing Partners of the firm are supported by a Senior Partnership Advisory group comprised of leaders from a broad range of business and investment backgrounds.

Alex Birch

Alex is a senior partner and member of the management committee at OC&C Strategy Consultants providing corporate strategy, performance and organisation enhancement and M&A support to clients across Europe, the US and Asia. In his thirty years of industry experience, Alex has developed specialisations in the consumer, media, entertainment and telecom sectors, holding non-executive directorships in the retail and business information sub-sectors. Alex graduated in Law from Cambridge and took his MBA from IMD Lausanne. Alex is a Trustee of The Conservation Foundation.

John McDonald

John is co-founder of Alternative Research and director of Arlington Capital. John was co-founder of BACIT which later became Syncona the UK-listed biotechnology investment trust and previously a non-executive director of Hanson Asset Management, the UK multi-family office. Prior to this John served as director of Impax Asset Management, the specialist environmental impact investment manager and as a director in the Alternative Investments division at New Star Asset Management. John graduated from the European Business School before starting his career with Morgan Grenfell in London.

Richard Nunneley

Richard served as director of Mercury Asset Management, Cazenove and then Singer & Friedlander. Currently, Richard serves as Chairman of Impact Investment Partners, Illyrian Land Funds, as an advisor to Floreat, the multi-family office, and he sits on the Finance and Investment committee of one of the leading family offices in the UK. Prior to his career in investment, Richard served in the Armed Forces as Colonel of his regiment.

Charlie Metcalfe

Charlie started his investment career with JP Morgan followed by Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and, as Deputy CEO, at Hermes Investments. Charlie subsequently assumed CEO roles at First State and Nikko Asset Management. Charlie holds non-executive directorships  with Perspective Investments and Wilton Real Estate Capital and other advisory roles in private equity and corporate finance. Charlie is a graduate of Yale University and a director of a Sainsbury Family charitable trust and the Institute of Imagination.