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Alec Machiels is the Founding Managing Partner at CoLift. He was a former Partner at Pegasus Capital. He has over 13 years of private equity investing and investment banking experience. Previously, Mr. Machiels was a Financial Analyst in the Financial Services Group at Goldman Sachs International in London and in the Private Equity Group at Goldman Sachs and Co. in New York. Investments in which he has been highly involved include Pure Biofuels, Molycorp Minerals, Traxys, Slipstream Communications, Coffeyville Resources, and Merisant Company. Mr. Machiels currently serves on the boards of Pure Biofuels, Molycorp Minerals, Traxys, Slipstream Communications, and Valogix. He is also a member of the Board of Trustees of the American Federation of Arts. Mr. Machiels is a graduate of Harvard Business School, KU Leuven Law School in Belgium, and Konstanz University in Germany. He joined Pegasus in 2002.
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- • 26 investors hold the Founding Managing Partner role in VCSift. Alec Machiels is one of them.
- • 10,621 investors are based in New York, New York, United States.
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