Alan Lake

Alan Ayling (born 1965), known by the pseudonym Alan Lake, is a computer expert from Highgate, London, who was involved in the English Defence League (EDL). Until 2011, he was a director of Pacific Capital Investment Management. and as the "chief financier" of the English Defence League (EDL), which Lake reportedly "fiercely denied". He did admit to having "given some money to help some EDL things happen" in his first television interview, on Norwegian TV 2.

Lake was considered a central figure in organising international counter-jihad contacts. Lake has since said that he continues to maintain good relations with many of the party's members and that he is a good friend of MP Kent Ekeroth. He has considered that the state "might as well" execute Islamists who seek to impose sharia law in the UK, Ayling also founded the far-right "4 Freedoms" website.

Lake rarely speaks with the press. He was awarded 5,000 euros in damages by a Maltese court from Paul Adam Cinato for defamation of character after Cinato blogged that Lake was Breivik's mentor. In January 2012, after the true identity of "Alan Lake" was revealed, Ayling was suspended from his management post at the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in the City of London.