Who We Are
ALaS is the consulting firm of choice for many of the world's largest financial services firms seeking to minimize risk, gain control over and achieve greater transparency into critical post trade processes. Our professional engagement teams provide rapid time to value by working quickly and efficiently to deliver result on time and on budget.
With increased focus on risk and control, financial institutions continue to struggle with processes that are out of tune with current policies and regulatory requirements. ALaS has focused its attention on strategic initiatives thereby changing the way its clients do business.
Founded in 2003, by Wesley Archer, Jeff Lathrop and Harjinder Sidhu, ALaS began as a consulting firm to the broker/dealer community focusing on strategic projects for Operations and Finance. Using expertise and best practice knowledge, ALaS has extended its top-tier consulting capabilities by providing software solutions and outsourcing to clients worldwide. ALaS is headquartered in New York City with offices in London.
Highlights
- 2003: ALaS hires its first full time employee
- 2004: Believing it to be the key to the future, ALaS begins recruiting and training top college graduates
- 2005: Craig Sher becomes a partner, focusing on the existing consulting practice and the development of a viable software business
- 2006: ALaS signs its first software contract to build a product control platform for one of the largest financial institutions in the world. The application, ALaS CaPRITM, brings control to the front, middle and back office process of substantiating balance sheet and P&L. The live date for ALaS CaPRI was less than a year from project execution
- 2007: ALaS builds and launches ALaS DocPort,TM a process and procedures documentation portal that gives clients the ability to electronically capture and store procedures in a standardized fashion