About Alpesh Patel

I left being a lawyer, to trading full-time. To be mentored by the best traders in the world, the Financial Times published my interviews with leading traders in my first of 18 books (The Mind of a Trader).

Thereafter, winning competitions on Bloomberg TV, where I had my own online trading show and Financial Times where I wrote a weekly diary of my online trading (Diary of an Internet Trader), I was asked by family offices, and then pension funds to manage money, so I established an FCA regulated asset management company. The UK Government uses me as a Dealmaker. I expanded from hedge funds into investing in fintech around AI and algo-trading to create the 'Google of Trading' using algos.

I keep in close touch with my roots - ie retail private investors and continue to be asked by major brokerages as a trusted figure to give talks to their client base. Past clients include Goldman Sachs, Barclays among others. I am also behind multi-award winning investment software which data-mines to outperform traditional fund managers. I believe hedge funds have to move towards technology and algos to survive and that we must democratise trading by licencing such hedge fund tech to the masses.

You can follow me on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alpeshbpatel/

My media profile and business, political and economic expertise has been utilised by the UK Government for more than a decade from London to New Delhi and Beijing, accompanying the PM and Ministers, business leaders on trade missions, as well as by some of the largest and most respected businesses institutions in the world as an advocate, utilising my training as a barrister, for growth strategies and business-friendly policies for wealth creation, diversity whilst engaging legislators and policy-makers.

I make frequent appearances on international prime time television as a contributor to global business discussions inspiring confidence in the role of business and pride in entrepreneurship, especially women entrepreneurs and inter-faith diversity benefits, and wealth creation, including the ‘Business is Great’ campaign, BBC’s Newsnight, and Bloomberg, CNN, Sky Business News, CNBC, Channel 4 and US / UK radio. I have written over 200 columns for the Financial Times, and built a worldwide reputation as an authority on economic, business, political issues, with my best-selling books on business, entrepreneurship, global competitiveness topping the charts in UK and international Amazon stores and my political and economic paper review on BBC World TV reaching 80m viewers.

During the course of my career, I have been sought-out by international corporate giants, including Barclays, Lloyds Bank, Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs and ICICI Bank, as an industry-recognised expert, to deliver advice at C-level on the global economy and growth strategies. As a businessman I built a successful private equity fund with a record of penetrative analysis of FTSE 100, 250, mid-cap companies, as well as global companies and economics and advising investors on successful strategies – with a track record commended by FT. A former Visiting Fellow in Business & Industry at Oxford University and Council Member of Chatham House, my practical expertise is backed up by academic credentials.