Volkert Doeksen (born 23 January 1963) is a

private equity Private equity (PE) is stock in a private company that does not offer stock to the general public; instead it is offered to specialized investment funds and limited partnerships that take an active role in the management and structuring of the co ...

investor and the founder of

AlpInvest Partners AlpInvest Partners is a global private equity asset manager with over $85 billion of assets under management as of December 31, 2024. The firm invests on behalf of more than 500 institutional investors from North America, Asia, Europe, South Amer ...

(originally NIB Capital). AlpInvest Partners is one of the largest global private equity investment managers, overseeing over €40 billion in

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. 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 City, with offices in the United States, Europe, Brazil, China, Southeast Asia and India. Warburg has been a private equity investor since 1966. As of April 2024 the f ...

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

leveraged buyout A leveraged buyout (LBO) is the acquisition of a company using a significant proportion of borrowed money (Leverage (finance), leverage) to fund the acquisition with the remainder of the purchase price funded with private equity. The assets of t ...

mezzanine debt Mezzanine capital is a type of financing that sits between senior debt and equity in a company's capital structure. It is typically used to fund growth, acquisitions, or buyouts. Technically, mezzanine capital can be either a debt or equity ins ...

and

fund of funds A "fund of funds" (FOF) is an investment strategy of holding a portfolio of other investment funds rather than investing directly in stocks, bonds or other securities. This type of investing is often referred to as multi-manager investment. A f ...

. 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

Dillon Read Dillon, Read & Co. was an investment bank based in New York City. In 1991, it was acquired by Barings Bank and, in 1997, it was acquired by Swiss Bank Corporation, which was in turn acquired by UBS in 1998. History Carpenter & Vermilye Dillon R ...

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

Netherlands , Terminology of the Low Countries, informally Holland, is a country in Northwestern Europe, with Caribbean Netherlands, overseas territories in the Caribbean. It is the largest of the four constituent countries of the Kingdom of the Nether ...

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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

* *http://www.altassets.com/news/arc/2002/nz860.php {{DEFAULTSORT:Doeksen, Volkert 1963 births Living people Private equity and venture capital investors Dutch hedge fund managers Dutch chief executives in the finance industry Businesspeople from The Hague Leiden University alumni Warburg Pincus people