Bio

Alec is the Managing Partner of CoLift. He was a Partner at Pegasus Capital Advisors, L.P., a private equity fund manager with approximately $2bn in assets under management. Alec was a member of the firm’s executive and investment committees. He has over 20 years of private equity investing and investment banking experience. Previously, Alec was a financial analyst in investment banking and private equity at Goldman Sachs. Investments in which he has been highly involved include Pure Biofuels del Peru, Molycorp Minerals, Traxys, Slipstream Communications, Coffeyville Resources, and Merisant Company. He also co-founded Potentia Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (sold to Apellis), Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. (NASD:APLS), Revon (sold to Zyus Life Sciences, Inc.), and Liberate Medical. He serves as a board member of Apellis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. He will join the Traxys Group board upon closing. He also served as a member of the board of trustees of the American Federation of Arts, where he chaired the endowment committee. Alec is a graduate of Harvard Business School, KU Leuven Law School in Belgium, and Konstanz University in Germany.