Alexandra Daly

CEO & Co-Founder at AA Advisors

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Alexandra Daly is Founder and CEO of AA Advisors, an independent global placement agency. She has over 20 years’ experience working in finance, 17 of which she has spent in the alternatives sector, raising assets in multiple jurisdictions and across the capital structure. She founded AA Advisors in 2007 and to date the firm has advised on over 86 raises across private markets including Private Equity, Private Credit, Real Estate and Infrastructure raising billions of dollars in these sectors. Alexandra manages teams and partnerships across the UK, EMEA, Asia, Latin America and Northern America.

In addition to her work with AA Advisors, Alexandra leads an initiative spun out of the Alison Rose Review of Female Entrepreneurship, commissioned by the UK Government, which aims to promote entrepreneurialism across the UK and reduce the entrepreneurial gender gap. Alexandra is the Chair of the Council for Investing in Female Entrepreneurs, a steering committee comprised of leading financial institutions, which is looking at implementing the recommendations of the Rose Review that urge LPs and investment funds to help their clients invest in female-run businesses. Alexandra also sits on the Ecosystem Working Group for the Invest in Women Taskforce backed by the Department for Business and Trade (DBT) which continues the UK Governments work to promote and grow the opportunities presented by female entrepreneurship.

Before founding AA Advisors, Alexandra worked at the Man Group for three years, where she cross-sold the firm’s multi-manager platforms, fund of funds businesses and investment services capabilities to European and UAE institutions, sovereign wealth funds, and family offices. Prior to this, Alexandra worked at J.P. Morgan in their London office in the derivatives products group. She started her career in finance at Morgan Stanley, as a member of the Fixed Income and Money Markets division. Alexandra has a BA Honours in Law from City University of London.