A fourth-generation family business owner and entrepreneurial family business leader and strategist, Alex read PPE at Oxford University and holds an MBA from IMD, Lausanne.. After roles in financial strategic communications he joined his family's long-established insurance business, Provincial Insurance, where he subsequently developed and. led a successful exit strategy. Lack of adequate advice to families in such a position prompted him subsequently to develop SandAire a full service multi-family office and he is now Chairman of this company together with other family businesses that he created.. Alex is also a Non-Executive Director of several private companies, and a Trustee of the Francis Scott Charitable Trust, the family foundation which is particularly active in Cumbria. He co-founded and is a past Chairman of the Institute for Family Business (UK) and served as a director of the Family Firm Institute Inc.. Alex became a Trustee of the Grosvenor Estate in 2011 and a Director of Wheatsheaf in 2012.
