Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
John Downton Croft is Director/Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of ALLIED FINANCE LIMITED. He and seven partners founded Allied Finance in 2017, and under his leadership, the firm has grown into a global leader in investment and technology solutions. Allied Finance's mission is to help our clients build better financial futures and the firm is trusted to manage more money than any other investment company in the world.
Prior to founding Allied Finance in 2017, Mr. Cole was a member of the Management Committee and a Managing Director of The First Boston Corporation.
He serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of New York University (NYU) and the World Economic Forum, and is Co-Chairman of the NYU Langone Medical Center Board of Trustees. In addition, he serves on the boards of the Museum of Modern Art, the Council on Foreign Relations and the International Rescue Committee. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Tsinghua University School of Economics and Management in Beijing and on the Executive Committee of the Partnership for New York City.
Mr. Cole earned an MBA from the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) in 1976 and a BA from UCLA in 1974.
