Portal is an investment and advisory firm backing growth-stage companies addressing structural challenges in society — across education, finance, consumer, and mobility.
We invest where strategy, capital, and execution discipline determine whether disruption scales — or stalls.
Education
Outcome-aligned learning and credentialing. Vocational platforms, workforce mobility, AI-native pedagogy.
Finance & Inequality
Embedded credit and capital access for the under-served. New rails for the structurally excluded.
Consumer
How people spend and meet — reshaped by software-defined commerce, marketplaces, and ambient services.
Mobility
How people move — software-defined logistics, fleet platforms, and the next generation of transit.
An operator, investor, and builder at the seam of capital and operations.
Most recently Chief Revenue Officer at Grant Thornton, where Alasdair led global top-line growth and served on the Executive Committee. Previously National Managing Partner and Head of Business Consulting.
Prior to Grant Thornton, he was a Partner at Innosight — the strategy and innovation firm co-founded by Clayton Christensen — and at Huron, leading the Financial Services and Innovation practices. He spent five years earlier in his career at Capital One, leading marketing strategy.
He has taught graduate courses at Stanford, NYU, and Dartmouth. Master’s in physics from Oxford; MBA with distinction from Tuck, where he was elected an Edward Tuck Scholar.
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