Alex Cooper-Evans

As Chief Operating Partner, Alex is responsible for our internal investment management processes, for most of our non-investment activities including fund finance, technology, finance and compliance and ESG, and for helping with the daily running of the firm. Alex sits on our Management and Investment Committees and chairs our Valuations, Exit, ESG and Finance Committees. 

Alex's background is as an investor. He has been in buyouts for more than thirty-two years, first as a leveraged financier with Crédit Agricole Indosuez and then as a private equity investor with Duke Street and Lazard before joining Epiris in 2006.

Since joining Epiris, he has led investments such as AXIO and Knight Square as well as managing the successful raising of Epiris Funds II and III.

Alex has a degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics from the University of Oxford, is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society and a member of the British Kunekune Pig Society and when not at work can sometimes be found in the skies over southern England in his Socata TB9.