Ryan is at the helm of Allocator, leading the company’s vision and mission.
Every day, he is dedicated to ensuring Allocator’s data and technology is trusted and valued by the world’s leading institutional investors.
With 15 years’ experience in the alternative asset management industry, Ryan understands the information asymmetry that exists despite the trillions being managed. He believes that investors, the true customers, deserve to know exactly what risks and opportunities they are exposed to.
Before co-founding Allocator, Ryan was part of the investment team at Stenham Advisors, a $3bn fund of hedge funds. During this time, he completed due diligence on macro & equity funds around the world and led investments totaling over $300m. During his tenure he also developed a range of quantitative risk analytics tools.
Ryan graduated from the London School of Economics with a BSc (Hons) in Management Science specializing in Finance.
Liam is the driving force behind operational excellence at Allocator, orchestrating seamless collaboration across departments to propel our mission forward. With a deep commitment to leveraging technology for the benefit of institutional investors, Liam is committed to optimizing processes and elevating data management standards within the industry.
Before joining Allocator in 2020, Liam was responsible for building out global client service operations for Morningstar Inc. and built high performing support and customer success teams across EMEA and APAC.
Liam went on to hold several Sales Director roles, most notably managing some of the top global client accounts outside of the U.S. for Morningstar Inc., and spent a great deal of his time enhancing and building sales and marketing operations for the business.
Liam holds a Bcomm in Investment Management & Marketing from Stellenbosch University.
As our CTO, Hassan is responsible for ensuring Allocator's platform is at the bleeding edge of where data, technology and automation converge.
Hassan is an exceptionally talented technologist who brings 10 years of experience in web development, server side technologies and technical leadership. Starting his career at Confiz Solutions, he quickly adopted a leadership role and oversaw a team which grew to seven developers.
Since joining Allocator in 2012, he has spearheaded the development operations working alongside the founding partners and has overseen development work on the product.
Hassan graduated from Lahore University of Management sciences with a BSc (Hons) in Computer Science and Mathematics.
Leading our go-to-market strategy, Will oversees the evangelization of our product's benefits within the global community of asset allocators and the service providers who support them.
Will has spent a decade selling solutions & services within the alternative investments vertical, having supported both allocators and fund managers to help optimize their decision-making, processes and operational workflows. Will joined Allocator in 2021 and brings with him a wealth of commercial experience and a track record of building high-performing sales teams at buy-side focused service providers.
Before working at Allocator, Will held senior sales roles at Colmore, SS&C Advent and AlternativeSoft.
Will has a bachelor's degree in Business Economics from the University of Liverpool.
Andrew has more than 10 years experience building and leading product teams to deliver data and software products serving institutional investors and asset managers in the alternative assets industry.
He joined Allocator in 2022 to focus on the continued evolution of Allocator’s industry-leading data and portfolio management platform. Prior to joining Allocator, Andrew spent 13 years at Preqin, including most recently as Head of Product where he led the global product management function focused on Preqin’s client-facing offerings.
Andrew holds a bachelor’s degree in History from the University of Manchester.
Pablo leads Allocator's Data Team across London & Cape Town, ensuring we continue to deliver our clients the broadest, deepest and most accurate data set on the market to asset allocators.
Pablo started his career as a derivatives trader at OSTC Group before developing an interest in the fast-growing data industry. He joined Allocator in 2017 as a data analyst and quickly rose through the ranks to lead and own our Data function.
Pablo holds an MSc in Finance from the London School of Economics and is a CFA charterholder. He graduated from Universidad Carlos III with a BSc in Finance and Accounting.
Brett Kaluza is Chief Customer Officer at PitchBook, the premier financial data provider for the private and public markets, which Morningstar acquired in 2016. During his tenure at PitchBook, Kaluza started as a Research Associate before joining the Customer Success team.
He has held multiple titles within the Customer Success function, becoming VP of Account Management & Customer Success in August 2017 and being promoted to Chief Customer Officer in August 2023. In June 2019, Kaluza temporarily relocated to PitchBook’s European Headquarters in London, England, to serve as Managing Director and oversee business operations in addition to his core responsibilities heading the global Customer Success team.
As Chief Customer Officer, Kaluza is responsible for managing the company’s customer success and support teams. His department manages the company’s roster of more than 5,600 customers using the PitchBook Platform. He also serves on the executive leadership team helping to set overall company strategy, review operations and build culture. Kaluza holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Marketing from the University of Washington.
Andrew is a senior adviser and freelance consultant to the alternative investment industry. He has over 35 years of experience as a practitioner and industry leader – latterly as CEO of the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), the 1400 member London-based global trade association for the hedge fund industry.
At AIMA he successfully developed and led the organisation during the aftermath of the global financial crisis including direct and constructive engagement in the G20 regulatory reform agenda which commenced in the wake of the crisis and which continues to unfold today.
Prior to his leadership role at AIMA he worked in asset management most recently as COO of Alternative Investments at Schroders. He has also had senior investment roles at NM Rothschild, HD International, UBS Phillips & Drew and at Gartmore. He is also a non-executive director of the Amherst, Massachusetts-based educational organisation The Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst Association (CAIA). Andrew graduated with BSc Mathematics from Imperial College London.