Hal Chappell, CIMAŽ has 30 years of experience in the US institutional investment industry. He founded Alternative Strategies, LLC in 2003. Alternative Strategies is a consulting firm working with investment management and advisory firms in the US and Europe.

Prior to 2003 Mr. Chappell was a First Vice President at Legg Mason and Director of the firm's Investment Consulting Group. Before joining Legg Mason, Hal headed Performance Measurement Associates, Inc., ("PMA"), a pension consulting firm which he founded in 1989 and sold to Gabriel, Roeder, Smith & Company in 1999. While at PMA, Mr. Chappell was the senior consultant responsible for consulting to 40 Firefighter's, Police Officer's, and General Employee's retirement funds in the state of Florida. Between 1983 and 1989 Hal was a member of the PRIME Pension Consulting Group of Kidder, Peabody & Co. Before joining Kidder, he was a member of E.F. Hutton's Pension Consulting Services Group.

Mr. Chappell is a founding member of the Investment Management Consultants Association (IMCA), and has been a member of the Florida Public Pension Trustees Association since 1985. He was awarded the Certified Investment Management Analyst (CIMAŽ) designation from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and IMCA in 1990. Hal received his education at the University of South Carolina where he majored in Finance and Management.

He and his wife, Sharon, have been married 30 years. They live in a suburb of Annapolis, MD with their son, Chris, who is a college student.