Alec’s drive to level the playing field and make the options market accessible to retail investors through Investa was fuelled by an inability to access the market himself personally. With extensive experience in options, he has worked with a wide range of instruments and aims to bring simple vanilla calls and puts on single stocks, ETFs, and indices to options traders in the UK. Be mindful, options are considered high risk investments due to their complex nature.Along with Ross, Alec brought Investa to life, defining the concept and building and inspiring a team to bring it to market.

Having previously launched a start-up in the property sector, Ross joined forces with Alec to bring Investa to life, defining the concept and building and inspiring a team to bring it to market. Now responsible for ensuring everything at Investa runs smoothly, from operations to product concept, design and delivery, Ross is committed to creating an experience that helps make the options market accessible.Be mindful, options are considered high risk investments due to their complex nature.

With over twenty years of experience working across a range of technologies and domains, Ian has worked at market-leading brands such as Snapchat, Amazon and Motorola, and co-founded award-winning start-up Freetrade.He is known for building and inspiring high-performing teams that have shipped products to millions of customers and he’s now using that experience to help level the playing field in the options market with Investa by building a trading experience full of tools & data to empower investors.

Keerut led the investment advisory offering across asset classes for high-net-worth investors at Saranac Partners and spent three years at Citi on the Equity Derivatives Sales desk. He has worked with a range of clients - including hedge funds and family offices - and covered diverse products, from listed options to hybrid and exotic derivatives.Now committed to providing retail investors with access to the options market, Keerut is shaping a streamlined trading experience with Investa, focusing on an easy-to-use design and a low-cost entry point. Be mindful, options are considered high risk investments due to their complex nature.

With over fifteen years of experience in brand and marketing, Rachel started out in the world of advertising agencies working on campaigns for brands such as Coca-Cola and Vodafone. After moving into Finance and Tech, she helped scale money management app Yolt from 0 to 1.5 million customers, before helping shape a global brand for crypto app, Luno. Creatively centered, behavioral economics driven and always taking the challenger position, she is focussed on ensuring Investa reaches the right people at the right time.