ALAN SIPPETTS

Alan’s background is active multi-asset investment management and he provides investment research, strategy, governance and oversight to investment funds, managers, and advisors. He is independent NED at Close Asset Management (UK) Ltd., Principal Investment Manager at Eden Park Investment Management, and Chair of London-listed specialist UK property company Alternative Income REIT plc.

Alan was Investment Director, Head of Research at Heartwood - Handelsbanken (2007-16) and oversaw investment across collectives, trusts and REITs at Lloyds Private Bank (2001-06). Previously he was Head of UK Smaller Companies at Legal & General IM and started his investment career in 1987 at Hermes.

Alan holds a BSc in Management Sciences-Economics from Lancaster University, where today he is a teaching fellow at the Management School. He is a fellow of the Chartered Institute for Securities & Investment.

Our Tiny Marketing Co

Based between Wickham and Bishops Waltham in Hampshire, we're a compact team of two. Both of us have creative brains, practical hands and tight belts which means we can come up with great ideas that are straight forward to implement without a big budget.

Erica's CV begins with a design degree, followed by a good few years experience in retail marketing for some big fish like WHSmith.  She has worked in an elite design agency, managed creative production at Innocent Drinks and now juggles designing, illustrating, copywriting and blogging with nosing around on Facebook.

Andrew has a technical background with reams of experience in photography as well as plenty of brand marketing expertise. With ten years of digital agency management also under his belt he's au fait with digital design, web layout and photoshop and has an exacting eye for detail.  He's also super practical and can come up with a solution for pretty much any creative challenge, particularly if it involves a toolbox