Experience and qualifications
Sir Ronald Cohen is Chairman of The Portland Trust and Bridges
Ventures and a Director of Social Finance. He was the
founding partner and former chairman of Apax Partners.
Sir Ronald is a member of the Harvard Board of Overseers, on the
Board of Dean's Advisers at Harvard Business School, a
Vice-Chairman of Ben Gurion University and a member of the
University of Oxford Investment Committee. He is also a
Trustee of the British Museum.
He was a founder director and past chairman of the British
Venture Capital Association and a founder director of the European
Venture Capital Association. He was also a founder and former
Vice-Chairman of EASDAQ and former director of NASDAQ Europe.
He was Chairman of the Social Investment Taskforce and the
Commission on Unclaimed Assets.
He has recently published "The Second Bounce of the Ball -
Turning Risk into Opportunity" about entrepreneurship.
He is a graduate of Oxford University, where he was president of
the Oxford Union, an Honorary Fellow of Exeter College, and has an
MBA from Harvard Business School, to which he was awarded a Henry
Fellowship. Sir Ronald was a recipient of the HBS Alumni
Achievement Award.