Volkert Doeksen (born 23 January 1963) is a

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investor and founder of

AlpInvest Partners AlpInvest Partners is a Dutch private equity asset manager with over $47 billion of assets under management as of September 30, 2017. The firm invests on behalf of a broad range of institutional investors from North America, Asia, Europe, South ...

(originally NIB Capital), one of the largest private equity investments managers globally with over €40 billion of assets under management. Today, he serves as managing partner and Chief Executive Officer of AlpInvest Partners which has offices in Amsterdam, Hong Kong and New York. Additionally, Volkert is member of the Board of

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in the Netherlands. He also serves on the Advisory Board of private equity firm

Warburg Pincus Warburg Pincus LLC is a global private equity firm, headquartered in New York, with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India. Warburg has been a private equity investor since 1966. The firm currently has over ...

. Prior to founding AlpInvest, Doeksen was a director of Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (today

Dresdner Kleinwort Kleinwort Hambros is a private bank owned by Société Générale that offers financial services from offices throughout the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. Kleinwort Hambros focuses on private banking, providing a range of services for high ...

), managing over $3 billion of private equity investments. From 1992 to 1994, Doeksen served as head of the bank's

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region, based in the firm's London office. In 1994, he moved to New York to head up DKB's private equity investments, including U.S.

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s, mezzanine debt and

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. Prior to

Kleinwort Benson Kleinwort Benson was a leading investment bank that offered a wide range of financial services from offices throughout the United Kingdom and Channel Islands. Two families, the Kleinworts and the Bensons, founded two different merchant banks in ...

, Doeksen worked as an

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focusing on

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for

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from 1989 through 1992. He began his career as a financial analyst in corporate finance for Morgan Stanley International in London in 1987. Doeksen received his M.A. in Law from Universiteit Leiden (The University of Leiden).

Other

Doeksen serves as the Chairman of the Millennium Promise Netherlands Foundation and serves on the board of directors. He also serves on the board of the digital consultancy

SparkOptimus SparkOptimus is a management consulting firm with a focus on digital strategy and digital transformation with offices in Amsterdam, Dusseldorf and Zurich. History SparkOptimus was founded in 2010 by Alexandra Jankovich and Tom Voskes, two fo ...

. Doeksen is a Dutch national and hails from the Doeksen family which controls various shipping and transportation concerns in the

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* *http://www.alpinvest.com/leadership/index.asp?viewType=ByRegion&d_Bio_ID=2&Section=7,1,0 * * *http://www.efinancialnews.com/investmentbanking/fn100/content/1046694625/volkertdoeksen

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