I’ve known Alan for four years; we joined Barclays around the same time and our early days were spent chatting on a whole host of topics from football, music, cars and family as the team in Glasgow ramped up. I’m now looking back on those chats with fond memories, and am greatly saddened we won’t have the many more we should have had. Alan was always the type of guy who would do anything for you. Offer advice, connect you with someone, lend you a tool for your DIY project, give you a laugh when you needed it. He wasn’t one for grand gestures; his character was built on repeated acts of kindness and generosity that added up were more than the sum of their parts. In the past year I became a father and Alan and I spoke a lot about what was in store for me before and after my daughter was born, given his own experience as a father, which seemed to me to be his life force. I’ll cherish those conversations more than anything else and will miss him terribly. Above all, my thoughts are with Christine, Jack and his family.