Meet The Team

Jonathan Tate

Chairman Jonathan spent the first ten years of his career working within the oil industry. During this time, he qualified as a Chartered Management Accountant, joining PwC as a management consultant in 1996...

Ian Dawson

Founder and Non-Executive Director Since founding the company in 2003, Ian has undertaken nearly every role at Alpha. Ian worked for over a decade in global investment banking before focusing on the opportunity to build a business t...

Paul Monk

CEO Paul began his career in the City of London, working on top-tier graduate programmes with a focus on Global Markets. He then moved role, to lead several high-profile eLearning projects across finan...

Hector Payne

Chief Learning Officer, and Executive Director Hector brings over 20 years of experience in the higher and corporate education industry with a specialism in learning data analytics and blended learning technologies. He has been credited with th...

Katie Verdicchio

Chief Operating Director Katie has been working in the L&D industry since 2011. Prior to her current role Katie was immersed in managing training programmes, the experience of which has proved vital in understanding th...

Stuart Mackie

Chief Technology Officer As an accomplished leader and the CTO for Alpha, Stuart has strategic oversight of our technical operations and is responsible for developing our Digital products, leading our technical strategy an...

Paul Kelly

Chief Financial Officer Paul has a deep and broad experience that supports his remit at Alpha, to help scale the business, introduce systems and process expertise, and provide the insight to enable effective decisions to ...

Bob Wieczorek

US Development Director Bob joins Alpha as our US Development Director with over 30 years of industry experience, including over 15 years of financial services specialist training.