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.