Board and Management

Colin Barrow Executive Chairman
Colin Barrow

Colin is a veteran of the Hedge Fund industry having been Managing Director of ED&F Man's (Now Man Group PLC) funds division. Colin was responsible for the design and growth of the ED&F Man managed funds business from inception to flotation in 1994. He was involved in purchasing both the Mint and AHL future’s management businesses, the latter still forming the core of the Man business. In 1996 Colin became Chairman of Sabre Fund Management, a post he held until December 2005. Colin has also served as Chairman of the Improvement and Development Agency for Local Government. In May 2002 he was elected to Westminster City Council where he has been leader since May 2008.

 

Nicola Meaden Grenham Chief Executive Officer
Nicola Meaden Grenham

Nicola Meaden Grenham, Ph.D. is the co-founder of Dumas Capital Limited, a specialist Investment Adviser authorised by the Financial Regulator in Ireland.

From 2001 until end 2003 Nicola was Managing Director and a member of the investment committee with the Blackstone Group Inc. where she was responsible for establishing and managing the development of the group's fund of hedge fund activities outside the United States.

In 1990, Nicola founded TASS Research (TASS) which became one of the market's leading information and research and advisory companies specialising in hedge funds. In 2001 TASS (by then merged with Tremont) was bought by Oppenheimer Funds Inc.

Nicola has a Ph.D. in Political Science from Trinity College, Dublin. Her thesis is entitled:
The Politics of Financial Regulation: Reform and Design in a Footloose World. She is the co-author of two books published by Simon and Schuster: Derivative Markets & Investment Management, and Futures Fund Management; she has also been a columnist for Forbes Global Magazine.

Christopher (Kit) Malthouse Finance Director
Christopher (Kit) Malthouse

One of the original founders of Alpha, Kit is a chartered accountant with 20 years’ experience in the finance industry. In 1998, Kit was elected to Westminster City Council where he rose to be Deputy Leader and Finance Chief, controlling a budget of over £900 million and delivering one of the lowest council taxes in the country. In 2008, he was elected to the London Assembly and was appointed Deputy Mayor for Policing by Boris Johnson, the Mayor of London. Also, he is currently Chairman of the Metropolitan Police Authority and has supervision of the Met's £3.5 billion budget. In parallel, he is on the board of the Association of Police Authorities, chairs the London Hydrogen Partnership, is an Honorary Vice Chairman of the Chelsea and Westminster Health Charity as well as an Honorary Member of the Passage Day Centre. He also chairs County Finance Group, an independent finance house which he co-founded in 1995.

 

Florence Lombard Non-Executive Director
Florence Lombard

In January 2011 Florence Lombard became the CEO of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association, an organisation she helped found in 2002. After running the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA) for a period of 16 years, Florence Lombard stepped down from her post of Chief Executive at the end of December 2008. Following the advent of the global financial crisis, she agreed to stay on as Executive Director focusing on the relationship with governments and policy makers internationally. She was appointed as a Non-Executive Director on the AIMA Board in 2010.

In January 2010 Florence was nominated as one of the 50 leading Women in Hedge Funds by the Hedge Fund Journal and PricewaterhouseCoopers and received the CAIA First Annual Leadership Award.

Florence has lived and worked in the UK, France and Switzerland and throughout the Asia-Pacific region.

She was educated in France and in England and took her degree in Marketing, Public Relations and Press Relations at Ecole Française des Attachés de Presse, Paris.

Jonathan Little Non-Executive Director
Jonathan Little

Prior to founding Northill in November 2010 with the Bertarelli family, Mr Little was Vice Chairman, BNY Mellon Asset Management and a member of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation's Global Executive Committee. He joined Mellon (later BNY Mellon) in 2000 and was latterly Head of BNY Mellon's International Asset Management Business and was responsible for all non-US asset management businesses. In addition, from January 2007 to December 2008 he was also Chairman of BNY Mellon's subsidiary, The Dreyfus Corporation, one of America's largest and oldest mutual fund companies.

In recognition of Mr Little's success at BNY Mellon in 2008, Global Investor Magazine voted him 'Senior Industry Executive of the Year' and FTSE Global markets named him one of its "20/20 Leaders who have driven their business forward in the last 12 months". In 2010 he was named one of The Financial News – '100 Most Influential people in European Capital Markets'.

Mr Little was educated at Oxford Brookes University and has the Chartered Insurance Institute, Financial Planning Certificate. He also has the Investment Management Certificate from CFA UK. He is also a Director of Standfirst Media Ltd – a sports and music publishing company.