Chair, Industrial Development Advisory Board, Department for Business and Trade

Ben Alexander is Chair of the Industrial Development Advisory Board in DBT and an external member of the Cambridge University Finance Committee. He has over 25 years’ experience in the financial services sector. He was a director at Deutsche Bank in London where he was co-head of derivatives trading and subsequently a partner of Close Brothers Private Equity where he was involved in institutional fund raising and sat on the boards of a variety of UK companies. He is currently a director of a consultancy business, a non-executive director of a virtual reality content business and a commercial adviser to the Cabinet Office.