16 Facts About Jeremy Coller

Jeremy Coller was born on 17 May 1958 and is a British businessman and philanthropist.

Jeremy Coller is the founder, chief investment officer and chairman of Coller Capital.

Jeremy Coller is chairman of the Jeremy Coller Foundation, his vehicle for philanthropic activities.

Jeremy Coller is deputy chair of Tel Aviv University and an advisory board member of the university's Coller School of Management.

Jeremy Coller is a member of the Advisory Council of The Elders, the international peace and human rights NGO founded by Nelson Mandela.

Jeremy Coller attended Carmel College and holds a master's degree in philosophy from the University of Sussex and a BSc in management sciences from Manchester University School of Management.

Jeremy Coller took the Diplome Cours de Civilisation at the Sorbonne in Paris.

Jeremy Coller then joined ICI Pension Plan as a sector fund manager, before becoming a venture and buyout manager.

Since then, Jeremy Coller Capital has become a globally recognised leader in the private equity secondaries market and Jeremy Coller is recognised for leading the industrialisation of private equity secondaries.

Jeremy Coller is Chief Investment Officer and Managing Partner of Coller Capital, which has completed some of the largest transactions in the private equity secondary market.

The Jeremy Coller Foundation is a strategic grant-making organisation, focused on two primary programme areas: ending factory farming and improving venture and management education.

The Foundation funds and supports the work of The Elders, where Jeremy Coller has been a member of the Advisory Council since 2012.

The Jeremy Coller Foundation looks at the consequences of factory farming for global sustainability.

In July 2020, Jeremy Coller announced the Jeremy Coller Prize for Interspecies Conversation, a $1m award for research into AI-augmented human-animal communication.

Jeremy Coller has won numerous awards for his contribution to the private equity and venture capital industries.

Jeremy Coller received an Honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 2013, for guiding the evolution of private equity as an asset class, and his commitment to the worldwide teaching of research in entrepreneurship and innovation.