Brad Alford founded Alpha Capital Management in July 2006 and serves as the Chief Investment Officer of Alpha Capital. He has over twenty-seven years of investment management experience, and he oversees the entire portfolio management process, including traditional asset class manager due diligence and selection as well as portfolio construction and review. He also heads up the firm's Consultant Search Service, which designs and runs consulting and OCIO searches for institutions.

Prior to founding Alpha Capital Management in July 2006, Alford was a Managing Director at Atlantic Trust from 2002 to 2006, where he worked directly with some of the firm's largest clients. From 2000 to 2002, he served as the Director of Investment Advisory Services at MyCFO, a firm focused on managing assets for ultra-high-net-worth clients. From 1995 to 2000, Alford was the Managing Director of the investment division for the $2 billion Duke Endowment. At Duke, he expanded the alternative asset portfolio from $100 million to more than $1 billion. From 1989 to 1995, he was the Director of Endowment Investments for the Emory University Endowment, with assets in excess of $4 billion.

Alford also founded and built an internet company, IPO Lockup.com. IPO Lockup.com was the first website to track and analyze the effects of lockup expirations on initial public offerings (IPOs). The website's information was featured each Sunday in the New York Times, and CNBC named IPO Lockup.com one of the "Cool Websites" for 1999. He sold IPO Lockup.com in 2000.

Alford was selected by Institutional Investor magazine as a “Rising Star of Mutual Funds” in 2012. He has been quoted extensively in the financial press, including the Wall Street Journal, Barron's, Fortune, and the New York Times. He has also made multiple appearances on CNBC, Bloomberg TV, and Fox Business Network.

He holds a BS in Corporate Finance and an MBA from the University of Alabama. In addition, he completed the intensive Senior Investment Manager Program at Princeton University. He is a CFA charterholder and is a member of the CFA Institute and the Atlanta Society of Finance and Investment Professionals.