Private credit

Neil joined the company in 2013 and has worked in the credit industry for more than 30 years. As Head of Private Credit, Neil is responsible for leading on all private credit activities across Aberdeen.

Neil started his career with NatWest and subsequently worked for a number of international banks, including Fortis, Eurohypo, RBS and Deutsche Pfandbrief Bank, where he was the only non-German domiciled person to be given the powers of a voting member of the credit committee.

Neil has extensive experience in both originating and restructuring private credit transactions in the UK and Europe. Neil is also the immediate past President of the Association of Property Lenders (the UK lending representative body) and has eleven years’ investment experience at Aberdeen, and over 30 years’ in the industry. Neil is also an associate at the Associate of the Institute of Bankers.

Alex is Head of Infrastructure Debt at Aberdeen, with overall responsibility for the team’s strategies in sourcing, underwriting and managing debt investments across a full range of infrastructure sectors. Aberdeen invests in both social and economic infrastructure across clean energy, transport, social infrastructure, utilities and digital assets. The team manages funds principally on behalf of insurance and pension institutions and invests both in developed and to a growing extent in emerging markets. Alex joined the company in 2015 after prior roles in the financial guarantee industry and in investment banking in London, with periods also spent in New York and Singapore. Alex has a MA degree in Classics from Oxford, where he studied civilisations with a strong track record in building infrastructure such as roads, bridges, aqueducts, sewage, concrete and arches, public buildings, urban planning, ports and lighthouses, and communications; as well as developing democratic principles, comprehensive legal systems, coinage and banking.