VGC appoints Read as director
VGC Partners has appointed Alex Read as a director in its new investments team.
In this role, he will seek and execute investment opportunities for the firm's £50m VGC Member II, which invests £2-5m for minority stakes in early-stage consumer, media and technology businesses. The fund closed in March 2019.
Read joins from Alantra, where he spent three years as an origination associate, involved in direct deal origination of privately owned businesses and financial sponsor coverage with small-cap and mid-market private equity firms. Prior to this, he began his investment banking career at Spayne Lindsay & Co, and prior to that, worked at Tullow Oil.
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