BCA was founded by experienced entrepreneurs Hassan Al-Lawati and Phil Blows who saw a gap in the market to fund investment opportunities overlooked by traditional investors. Combining their complementary skills and networks, they have helped deploy more than $500m of loans and direct investments.
Previously founder & CEO of AQRU which he took public in the UK in 2021. Phil has 18 years of experience building, scaling, and exiting asset management and fintech businesses. Phil is the investment manager of the AQRU Receivables Strategy generating exceptional risk-adjusted returns for institutional investors transacting in excess of $400m of loans in 2023.
In his early career, he founded and scaled the asset management division of global FX provider Moneycorp where he managed long/short equity and FX strategies for investors.
Hassan Al Lawati is a serial entrepreneur with over 24 years of experience leading and supporting teams across the Middle East, Asia, Europe, and the US. His expertise includes deal structuring, customer acquisition, and fundraising.
Hassan has cofounded several companies, including Caeleste (CLST) AG, a Swiss Company that is creating a global network of institutional crypto credit channels, 3S Solutions (a GCC-focused security and defense technology distributor) and LexSystems (a GCC-based home and building automation solutions provider), and served in various structured corporate environments, including as the CEO at Instimatch, a Swiss pioneer in connecting treasuries worldwide for the digital trading of cash products.