Welcoming Colin Bryant as Coatue’s COO for Private Investments & General Partner and Nicholas Mouradian as Partner
We are welcoming two experienced investors to the Coatue team today: Colin Bryant, who joins us from NEA to focus on portfolio management and value creation in the newly created role of COO for Private Investments, and Nicholas Mouradian, who joins from Ares Management to focus on our structured equity strategy.
As COO for Private Investments, Colin will oversee portfolio management of Coatue’s growth capital and venture capital investments, working with the firm’s investors, operations team, and portfolio companies. Colin has spent more than two decades in venture capital and growth investing, guiding successful strategic outcomes in technology-driven companies across a variety of sectors. During his tenure at NEA, Colin was deeply involved in the leadership of the firm’s portfolio management strategy and served on the boards of a wide array of portfolio companies.
“Leveraging his experience managing large-scale institutional investment portfolios, Colin will concentrate on enhancing Coatue’s growing private investments platform in this newly created private investments COO role. We’re excited to have him bring his insights to Coatue and our portfolio.” said Thomas Laffont, co-founder of Coatue.
Nicholas Mouradian joins as a partner in Coatue’s structured equity platform. He brings over a decade of investment experience, including at Citi, Monarch Alternative Capital, and most recently at Ares Management Corporation. Nick will bolster Coatue’s efforts in providing companies and founders with tactical solutions that meet their unique financing needs in changing market environments.
“We are thrilled to have Nick join us and help build upon our work at Coatue as we seek to partner with companies providing alternative capital solutions. Nick has tremendous expertise in providing creative financing structures,“ according to Coatue Head of Tactical Solutions Aaron Weiner.