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About 4sl

4SL Group brings together many years of client-side IT experience in the financial services sector. During that time, we were always on the lookout for solution providers who quickly understood our business and working practices. We were keen to engage with service-centric suppliers who could offer flexible, innovative and reliable IT change. Allied to our independence and impartiality, 4SL was created with these core values in mind.

Why choose 4sl?

Independent :

we are completely vendor-agnostic with no agenda for products & solutions

Focus :

we are City based and specialise in the banking & finance sector

Experience :

we have many years of client-side experience delivering high value across architecture, engineering, programme management, service delivery & support functions

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Executive Directors

Stuart Alderson (CEO)

After studying Computer Science and Economics, Stuart began his IT career in Operations with STC/ICL in the early 1980s. His roles crossed manufacturing, insurance and legal before moving into finance with UBS in the mid 1990s. As Global Head of Infrastructure Project Services, he played a major part in the UBS/SBC integration, Y2K and Euro conversion programmes, and it was also at UBS where he met Stuart Tarrant. He joined ABN Amro as a freelancer in 2003 where he managed the relationship between Operations and the new outsourcer EDS, working closely with Barnaby Mote.

The following year at RBS, he fulfilled an interim management role as Chief of Staff to the Global Head of Infrastructure, supporting organisational and technology change. From there he joined a City-based consultancy in a senior account management / business development role.

Barnaby Mote (CFO)

Graduating in 1996 with a Masters in Psychology from St Andrews University, Barnaby started his career in the Euro conversion Programme Office with UBS. This was followed by a spell in Equities financial control at Deutsche Bank before moving to ABN Amro to build the Programme Office during the mobilisation of a global Operations restructuring initiative in 2000. Whilst at ABN Amro, he met Stuart Alderson working within Operations technology during the outsourcing to EDS.

In 2004 he moved to RBS to work with Stuart, initially taking on stewardship of discretionary Infrastructure budget and later, Business Management across the whole Infrastructure function. Immediately before setting up 4SL, he was consulting on a business management process initiative for an investment banking client.

Stuart Tarrant (CTO)

Stuart studied engineering at UCL and complemented this with practical experience from an engineering company and a period in R&D at Sony Broadcast. His first job was with Case Communication on a pioneering mobile data communications system before moving into financial services as a systems analyst at NatWest. He helped implement an open systems architecture for the bank¹s branch network through innovative use of emergent client server technology.

Stuart delivered a number of major IT projects in the investment banking domain after joining SG Warburg in the early 1990s; the subsequent merger with Swiss Bank Corporation, the outsourcing to Perot Systems and merger with UBS provided a number of significant challenges and Stuart gained recognition as heavyweight programme delivery and service manager. He moved into consulting in 2003 with a specialist City-based infrastructure services firm and was instrumental in the development of strategic service offerings which helped grow the business leading up to its acquisition in 2007.