Jeremy Coller

[9] His notable acquisitions include technology incubators formerly owned by BT, Lucent Bell Labs and the United Kingdom Atomic Energy Authority.

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

[citation needed] The firm employs over 220 people, and is headquartered in London, with additional offices in New York City, Hong Kong and Korea.

In January 2021, the firm closed Coller International Partners VIII, with committed capital (including co-investment vehicles) of just over $9 billion and backing from over 200 of the world's leading institutional investors.

In February 2022 the firm closed Coller Credit Opportunities I, with committed capital (including co-investment vehicles) of c.$1.4 billion and backing from over 30 institutional investors.

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.

[17] FAIRR is a collaborative investor network that raises awareness of the material ESG risks and opportunities caused by intensive animal agriculture.

[18] Launched by the Jeremy Coller Foundation in 2015, FAIRR believes that intensive animal agriculture and protein production poses material risks to the global financial system and hinders sustainable development.

[19][20] FAIRR also runs collaborative investor engagements with global food companies to improve performance on selected ESG issues in the sector.

The prize was announced by Interspecies I/O, a forum of leading figures in inter-species communication; its members include Peter Gabriel, Vint Cerf, Diana Reiss and Neil Gershenfeld.

These include: Coller received an Honorary Doctorate from Tel Aviv University in 2013,[26] for guiding the evolution of private equity as an asset class, and his commitment to the worldwide teaching of research in entrepreneurship and innovation.