Russell is Global Head of Multi-Asset and Alternative Investment Solutions in the Investment Business of abrdn, reporting to Peter Branner, CIO. Having worked with the Alternatives team for over 20 years and having responsibility for the strategy, vision and innovation across the Alternatives function, Russell was also appointed Head of the Multi-Asset function in July 2023.

Russell is chairman of both the Alternatives Governance & Investment Committee, Multi-Asset Oversight Committee and the Pan Alternatives Investment Committee as well as a Non-Executive Director of Archax, the UK’s only FCA-regulated digital asset exchange, broker and custodian, following abrdn’s investment in August 2022 making them their largest external shareholder.

Russell joined the business in 2010 via the acquisition of various asset management businesses from Royal Bank of Scotland, where he was a strategy head within the hedge fund team. He originally joined the hedge fund investment desk at Coutts & Co in 2000 having worked there from 1998.