Alex Palfi is Principal of Tykoh Group Pty Limited - an Australian-based training provider specialising in tailored one and two day workshops on technical finance and business topics.

Prior to setting up Tykoh in January 2009 Alex was a Division Director at Macquarie Group in Sydney.  In that role he developed a range of finance workshops both for Macquarie and non-Macquarie people and presented those workshops internationally in London, New York, Tokyo, Los Angeles, Korea, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taipei, Johannesburg, Bangkok, Sao Paulo, Sydney, Melbourne, Auckland and Wellington.  Those workshops focused on Financial modelling, financial spreadsheets, valuation, derivatives, credit risk and Visual Basic programming.

Prior to joining Macquarie in 1994 Alex worked for a number of financial services organisations as a financial software developer and before that lectured at Technical Institutes in New Zealand in programming and electrical engineering.

Alex's university qualifications are in engineering.  He obtained Masters and Bachelors degrees in Electrical Engineering from the University of Canterbury in New Zealand.