A graduate of Oxford and Columbia Universities and with an MBA from INSEAD, Alex worked as a producer in factual and entertainment programmes for companies such as Granada, the BBC and Planet 24 before co-founding Ten Alps in 1999 with Bob Geldof. Since the company came onto AiM in 2001Ten Alps has increased its revenues from under £2m to over £75m, and completed 16 acquisitions. Alex has been short-listed for Entrepreneur of the year award several times.