The Lifeboat Group is a family office based in Southampton, UK.
Our mission is to help manage the assets of a local family who founded and operate one of the world's largest tea brands.
We do this by adapting a multi-asset endowment style portfolio allocation: investing all the way from blue chip companies, like Google, to smaller business. We also invest in other asset classes, such as commercial real estate.
All of our investments are underpinned by a very sharp focus on the Buffett-Munger investment principles, of which we are ardent pupils.
Value, patience & prudence.
Recently we have focussed our efforts on investing in high quality niche UK manufacturing businesses.
In 2023, we acquired Formara, the UK’s leading customer and technology led print marketing business.
In 2024 we acquired Appletex, the UK’s leading manufacturer and supplier of stockinette textile.
We continue to search for outstanding businesses to invest in.
Meet the team
Founder, Chief Investment Officer
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Taha founded the Lifeboat Group in 2019 and is the Chief Investment Officer. Prior to this, he co-managed the Active Recycling fund, the world's first fund dedicated to the global recycling sector and worked with the team behind Active Solar, the best performing fund in Europe at the time. Taha also served several roles at his family tea business, including Portfolio Manager. Prior to that, he worked L.E.K. Consulting and Credit Suisse. Taha holds a Ph.D. in Management from the London School of Economics and an M.B.A. from London Business School. Taha is passionate about protecting the environment from plastic pollution.
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Partner, and Investment Advisor
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Alejandro joined the Lifeboat Group in 2021, as an investment advisor. He spent 15 years at Horizon Capital Management, a long-only deep value emerging markets equity fund as a Portfolio Manager, where the fund has achieved average returns of over 18% over a 20 year period. Alejandro is a qualified CFA and holds an M.B.A. from London Business School.
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Investment Analyst
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Kyle joined the Lifeboat Group in 2022 as an investment analyst. Prior to this, he worked at AlphaSights in London, where he supported top-tier management consultancies with investment screening, due diligence, value creation, and market studies for global private equity and corporate clients. He has an operational and management background in UK SMEs. Kyle holds a First-class degree in International Development from the University of Reading.
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Commercial Non-Executive Director
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Alistair provides the Lifeboat Group with Board-level commercial and operational oversight for the SME portfolio. He has 15+ years of experience as an independent interim executive, advisor, and Non-Executive Director (NED) across the FMCG, B2B, and D2C sectors. An Accredited Member of the Institute for Turnaround, Alistair is known for driving sustainable growth and value creation across PE-backed SMEs and global corporates such as Mars and Nestlé.
Financial l Non-Executive Director
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Mike provides the Lifeboat Group with board-level financial and operational oversight to the SME portfolio. He has over 23 years of experience working with Private Equity and Family Offices. In 2001, he joined Aberdeen Asset Managers Private Equity (now known as Maven Capital Partners), where he now oversees Maven’s portfolio of UK based private investments worth over £600 million. Mike is an accomplished Chairman, NED, and Finance Director and became a Chartered Accountant in 1992 with Arthur Andersen. He is also a Fellow of the Institute for Turnaround and an Honorary Fellow and guest lecturer at the University of Nottingham.
Our purpose is to leave the world in a better place than we found it.
This is why we give 20% of our profits to charitable causes supporting hunger alleviation and environmental protection across the world. So far, we have served over 200,000 meals, and cleaned multiple 3 major sites from severe environmental degradation caused by plastic pollution.
