The Alta Group

Paul Piggott, an associate based in South Africa for several years, has 20 years’ international experience across a wide spectrum of markets and asset types and in all aspects of business development, including M&A. Amongst his achievements, he has an impressive track record of building high-performing vendor leasing programmes.

Paul specialises in vendor finance and has worked for both lessors and vendors. He has a thorough understanding of the requirements for developing, implementing and successfully running vendor programmes and is a highly-regarded hands-on global programme leader and enthusiastic exponent of vendor finance.

Paul is focusing on numerous opportunities with Alta drawing on his wealth of experience. He can help international lessors and vendors understand and successfully enter the African market and assist local financial institutions in developing their knowledge base and product/service offerings. Paul can additionally uses his empathy for emerging markets in the Middle East and elsewhere to help lessors, vendors and local banks explore and seize opportunities.

"Alta is the global authority on asset finance and it is an honour to be part of the team. I derive enormous satisfaction from helping clients implement their business strategies and achieve success."

Prior to joining Alta, Paul held various general management and business roles with major asset finance companies including GE Capital, Heller Vendor Financial Services and, latterly, Key Equipment Finance. At KEF, he had overall responsibility for new and existing vendor programmes and thrived on the opportunity to build and lead the team that drove the turnaround of the European business.

CONTACT INFORMATION

Paul Piggott
Post Suite 38
Private Bag X26
Tokai
Cape Town
7966
South Africa

+27 21 787 9971 tel
+27 72 557 7721 mob
+44 7941 578725 mob (UK)
paulpiggott@thealtagroup.eu.com