Alan Colner
New York
[ alan.colner@ca-llp.com ]
Alan Colner is a Partner based in Compass Advisers' New York office, and Head of the firm's capital raising effort.
Prior to joining Compass in July 2001, Mr. Colner was Managing Director, Private Equity Investments for Moore Capital Management, a multi-billion dollar global investment management group. He established Moore's private equity group and led the development of its highly profitable activities in growth capital, buyout and venture investments. While managing Moore's private investments, Mr. Colner was a director of privately-held and publicly-traded companies across a range of industries (including consumer products and services, financial services, media and marketing services, medical products, and telecom manufacturing). He also served on the advisory boards of three private equity funds.
Before joining Moore in 1996, Mr. Colner was a Managing Director at Corporate Partners, a top‑quartile institutional private equity fund affiliated with Lazard Frères & Co. that invested approximately $1.5 billion in consumer products, energy, financial services, media and retailing companies. While at Corporate Partners, Mr. Colner served as a director of LaSalle Re Ltd., a publicly-traded reinsurance company of which he was a co‑founder.
Prior to joining Corporate Partners in 1988, Mr. Colner was a Vice President in the Mergers and Acquisitions Group at Lehman Brothers. At Lehman, he handled strategic advisory projects, corporate sales, acquisitions, leveraged transactions, restructurings and capital raising assignments. His clients included American President Companies, Chesebrough-Pond's, Di Giorgio, Great Western Financial, Pillsbury, Westinghouse and various private equity firms. He also worked in the firm's international leveraged leasing business.
Mr. Colner is a member of the Advisory Board of PensionsFirst Group LLP, which provides analytic services and capital markets solutions for the defined benefits pensions industry. He is also a director of Piedmont Community Bank Holdings, Inc.
In addition, Mr. Colner was a director of James River Group, Inc. (NASDAQ: JRVR), a specialty commercial insurance company which he co-founded, from 2002 until its sale in December 2007 to investors led by the D.E. Shaw group. Also, he has chaired the Investment Committees of three insurance companies.
Mr. Colner received an M.B.A. from the Stanford University Graduate School of Business (Arjay Miller Scholar) and a B.A. from Yale University. He is a member of the Dean's Council of the Weill Cornell Medical College.
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