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Dan Taylor

General Partner & Chief Financial Officer

Dan’s background is in finance, a qualified chartered accountant with 25 years’ experience across professional services and industry. As well as a financial mindset, one of his key strengths is an ability to build great relationships at all levels, both internally and externally, providing support, credibility and confidence as companies scale.

 

Dan was a Partner at Grant Thornton, where he advised SMEs and their founders. He worked across the financial advisory area and has corporate finance, turnaround, and restructuring experience.

 

He helped many business owners to work through challenging periods and manage relationships with their partners to achieve positive outcomes. This period provided Dan with the opportunity to work with a wide range of companies, some great, some with challenges, taking valuable learnings from all of them.

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25 Years'

Experience across professional services and industry in senior finance roles.

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Dan helps businesses to sharpen their focus, delivering real performance gains and value growth.
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Dan is looking forward to building the Alderway portfolio and helping partners achieve success. 

Moving into industry, Dan joined Ridgeway, a fast-growing motor retail business, where he worked with the owners to streamline operations, improving financial governance and reporting to plug profit leakage and drive better management disciplines. During Dan’s time with the business, revenue and profitability more than doubled in three years, contributing to the ultimate disposal to a PLC group, at an industry leading EBITDA multiple, for over £100m.

 

Dan again brought this experience to Vanarama, working with Andy to help deliver his vision of an e-commerce vehicle leasing experience. Applying the same focus to financial process, governance and control, and working with the wider management team to support operational change as the business sought to transform and scale. He led a successful second round fund raising process in 2019 which provided the growth capital needed to continue with the transformation plan, culminating in the £200m exit to Auto Trader in 2022.

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Dan is looking forward to building the Alderway portfolio and using his experience to help Alderway partners achieve even greater success.

 

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Andy Alderson

Founder & Managing Partner

Andy Alderson is beyond proud to be the Founder and now former CEO of Vanarama, a business he started in a Portakabin on a used car site, and ended up selling to the FTSE 100 giant, Auto Trader for £200 million.

 

Now with his Partners, all of whom he has worked with very closely before, and who each played a role in Vanarama’s success, Andy could not be more excited to dedicate his time and money to supporting, nurturing and empowering the next generation of business leaders as Founder and Managing Partner of Alderway.

Andy Alderson
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£200m

The only vehicle leasing business to achieve an exit to a FTSE 100 giant.

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Our Team

Andy Alderson

Founder & Managing Partner

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Andy Alderson is beyond proud to be the Founder and now former CEO of Vanarama, a business he started in a Portakabin on a used car site, and ended up selling to the FTSE 100 giant, Auto Trader for £200 million.

 

Now with his Partners, all of whom he has worked with very closely before, and who each played a role in Vanarama’s success, Andy could not be more excited to dedicate his time and money to supporting, nurturing and empowering the next generation of business leaders as Founder and Managing Partner of Alderway.

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