AlphaSights is an information services company, specializing in connecting clients with experts, sometimes referred to as an

expert network Expert networks refer to a type of business that connects companies with expert resources or subject-matter experts, such as academics, C-levels, founders, and high-level officials to provide valuable information, data, or assistance. Background ...

. The company's clients include professionals operating in management & strategy consulting, investment management, private equity, corporate and professional services firms with interests in a range of markets including technology, industrials, consumer goods, telecommunications, utilities, financial services, healthcare, consumer services, basic materials, and oil and gas. AlphaSights is headquartered in

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and has offices in

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Dubai Dubai (Help:IPA/English, /duːˈbaɪ/ Help:Pronunciation respelling key, ''doo-BYE''; Modern Standard Arabic, Modern Standard Arabic: ; Emirati Arabic, Emirati Arabic: , Romanization of Arabic, romanized: Help:IPA/English, /diˈbej/) is the Lis ...

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, and

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Founders

The company was founded in 2008 and incorporated in 2009 in London by Max Cartellieri and Andrew Heath. They met at

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in California, but each founded different companies before founding AlphaSights. Cartellieri co-founded Ciao AG, a leading European price comparison website, backed by Munich-based

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investor Acton Capital Partners and ultimately acquired by

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. Andrew Heath co-founded GoIndustry, an online marketplace that trades surplus industrial goods all over Europe, now part of GoIndustry DoveBid.

Growth and expansion

AlphaSights opened its second office in New York City and a third office in Hong Kong in 2011 before opening further offices in Dubai in 2012, San Francisco and Seoul in 2015, Shanghai in 2016, Hamburg in 2017, and Tokyo in 2018. In 2013, the company was named the third fastest-growing company headquartered in the UK by ''The Sunday Times'' Fast Track 100 and has appeared on the list every year since, placing 11th in 2014, 21st in 2015, 41 in 2016 and 81 in 2017. In April 2017, AlphaSights was named as one of the fastest-growing and most disruptive companies headquartered in Europe by the ''

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''."FT 1000: Europe’s Fastest Growing Companies"
''Financial Times''. Retrieved 2017-04-27.

References

External links

Official website
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