Books by Alpesh B. Patel

Alpesh B. Patel is the founding director of Agile Partners Asset Management, one of the best performing hedge funds in the world in 2004. In 2005 he was made International Dealmaker for the UK Government's Global Entrepreneur Programme within UK Trade and Investment. In that role he is responsible for searching intellectual property in India of outstanding value and making it investment ready with a UK angle. His business interests include founding director of InvestingBetter.com, a non-executive Chairman of Aranca, a director and shareholder in WorldSpreads Plc and director and shareholder of Pinnacle Capital. Alpesh is a founding board member of TiE-UK and has been Visiting Fellow in Business & Industry, Corpus Christi College, Oxford University. He is involved with several Oxford Business School Committees. Alpesh has written a weekly column in the Financial Times and is a regular markets and business commentator on CNBC Asia, CNN and the BBC. He also co-hosted a weekly show for 3 years on Bloomberg TV. Alpesh is on the UK-India Roundtable, established by the UK and Indian Prime Ministers to examine how to expand all facets of bilateral relations. He is also on the board of the Indo-British Partnership and a Trustee of Chatham House. Alpesh is the author of 10 investment and business books translated into 6 languages. He has a degree in Philosophy, Politics, Economics from Oxford University and in Law from King's College, London and is a non-practicing barrister. Nikki Royston is a freelance writer, based in Vancouver. After becoming disheartened by the male-dominated workplace, she took the decision to begin working for herself. Nikki has edited women-focussed websites, including the 'Mothers Who Think' site, and www.the-bag-lady.co.uk, a global directory of women in business. She has three children, two of whom were born in the first three years of setting up her own business/working for herself, proving that business and domestic life can work together. Nishika Patel has a Masters Degree in Journalism and has experience in international journalism. She has formerly interned at Bloomberg in London and is currently a full-time journalist.