Alastair Keith is a UK citizen but was educated in the US and has spent his entire professional career in the financial services and advisory industries, primarily in New York. He started out at Brown Brothers Harriman & Co in NY, followed by a period working as a financial advisor to multi-national corporations in the Middle East, a return to Brown Brothers and then a five year period working with the Czech government on privatization. He spent the last 20 years of his career as a general partner of a New York based fund-of- funds, from which he retired in 2012. He now divides his time with his wife Wing between a home in Garrison and a house in the UK.