Alex Poots

Alexander Moinet Poots CBE (born 1967), is the founding chief executive and artistic director of The Shed in New York City.

[4] Alexander Moinet Poots was born in Edinburgh in 1967,[5] to a French mother and an Irish father, and studied the trumpet from a young age.

[4] He earned a bachelor's degree in music from City University London.

[5] He played trumpet on The Blue Nile album Hats.

Poots is married to American sociology professor, and author of Religion and Nation, Dr. Kathryn Spellman-Poots.