Philip Clein
Director

Philip has worked in the UK leasing market for more than 25 years. After working as a local authority money broker he joined Saturn Management and subsequently became its Chief Executive. Saturn was the leading local authority leasing advisor of its day and also transacted over £250 million of business in the telecoms sales aid market. Additionally it created special purpose companies for nearly 100 local authorities.

With others, he founded Sector Group, which was subsequently acquired by The Capita Group in 1998. Philip has been a Director of Arlingclose since 1993 working with Charles Humphry in creating and managing special purpose companies for public sector bodies.

Alex Colombini
Associate

Alex was previously a Director of Close Healthcare Finance, Close Brothers Merchant Bank. He was responsible for operating leasing and structured finance for the Healthcare Division which encompassed NHS and private sector funding requirements.

He initially entered the leasing market with Lombard in 1992 and went on to hold a senior position with Asset Investment Group (AIG) specialising in NHS operating lease transactions.

During his career Alex has been responsible for arranging many complex NHS leasing transactions offering transparent and creative structures. He has extensive knowledge of NHS accounting, lease structuring, tendering and lease evaluation.

Charles Humphry
Director

Charles, a CPFA accountant, was a Director of Sector Group prior to its acquisition by The Capita Group. He was a co-founder of Sector in 1992 and was responsible for a number of innovative funding structures used by local authorities and universities to undertake major new capital investment. Since 1979 Charles has advised local authorities on capital financing and has arranged finance in excess of £2 billion for them. Along with Philip Clein, Charles has been a Director of Arlingclose Limited specialising in advising local authorities on financing complex capital projects since 1993.

Before entering the City, Charles was an Assistant County Treasurer and had also been an advisor to the Secretary of State for the Environment on Local Government Finance. He is Treasurer of a major housing association.

Mark Horsfield
Director

Mark Horsfield began his career at Suffolk County Council on its accountancy trainee programme. He qualified with CIPFA in 1990 and progressed to the position of Principal Technical Accountant in its County Treasurer's Department.

In 1992 Mark joined the Public Sector Team at UBS Phillips & Drew, and embarked on a career in treasury management consultancy at a time of significant growth and change in the treasury management arena. Mark was made a Director in 1997 before joining Sector Treasury Services later that year.

At Sector, Mark held the position of Director of Investment Advisory Services and was responsible for its significant investment advisory activities as well as a diverse range of direct client relationships. Existing and new relationships with clients and fund managers were key developments during Mark's time at Sector, as well as managing the introduction of local authorities to investment opportunities in the Euro-Sterling bond market.

Mark joined Cazenove Fund Management in 2001 to develop its public sector institutional business. He became head of its institutional business development team in 2002 and was responsible for a growing list of local authority clients as well as international client and investment consultant relationships.

Phiroza Katrak
Client Director

Phiroza began her financial career as an early recruit at Integer Treasury Services in 1992. She joined Sector Treasury Services on its formation in October 1997. Phiroza is an industry specialist on local government investment issues and counterparty policies. She had valuable input to the ODPM on their draft and final Guidance on Investments during the development of the Prudential Framework and played a key role thereafter in assisting local authorities establish individual investment strategies.

At Sector she quickly became a highly regarded and senior member of the Treasury Services team. Responsible for a diverse range of local government client relationships, she held the position of Assistant Director advising on debt, investment and credit strategies. She has joined Arlingclose as Client Director.

Mark Pickering
Director

Mark Pickering began his financial career on the Sterling Inter-bank desk at money broker Tullet & Tokyo, gaining broad experience in UK fixed income products, swaps and other derivatives. He moved to Integer Treasury Services in May 1997 and progressed to become a highly regarded and senior member of the Sector Treasury Services Team as Assistant Director. In this role he headed a team of four executives with responsibility for a large number of local authority clients throughout the UK. Mark's interaction with a challenging client base embraced a significant and diverse exposure to debt and investment portfolios.

Mark was instrumental in successfully developing the direct investment by local authorities in the Euro-Sterling bond investment market in 1999. Since then investments made in these bonds have grown towards £1 billion of stock.

Chris Taylor
Technical Director

Chris Taylor joins Arlingclose as its full-time Technical Director from Denbighshire County Council. He is a CIPFA qualified accountant with 30 years of local government finance experience and is a member of CIPFA's Executive Committee in Wales. The majority of his experience has been in capital and technical accounting that includes local government reorganisation in Wales in 1996.

In the newly formed County Council of Denbighshire, Chris quickly became familiar with Housing Revenue Account and Subsidy related issuesand also took a leading role in the investigation of the financing of the capital programme of one of the predecessor authorities and the management of the financial legacy to Denbighshire CC. Whilst this legacy was unexpected it provided Chris with detailed and invaluable capital finance and accounting experience and required close working with senior civil servants and auditors.

More recently Chris has been responsible for the full range of the Council's accounting services and the establishment of its asset management plans. In the run up to the introduction to the Prudential Code, Chris represented Denbighshire in its capacity as one of the "road-testing" authorities. This gave him a valuable and early opportunity to gain first hand experience of the requirements of the new system. Since 2003 Chris has been the Chair of a Regional Chief Accountants' Practitioners Group.

He brings to Arlingclose and its clients a wealth of relevant and recent practical experience.

Rebecca Coates
Office Manager

Rebecca joined Arlingclose in April 2007 to provide support to the treasury team and to manage the day to day functions of the office.

Rebecca has strong IT skills and proven talents in organising systems to improve operational efficiency. In addition she provides vital data for management decisions client advisory work.