Primary Job Title Co-Founder and Managing Partner Primary Organization 
Palamon Capital Partners
Location London, England, United Kingdom Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) Gender Male
Investor Type
Louis Elson is Managing Partner of Palamon Capital Partners, a private equity firm he co-founded in 1999. He has been active in European private equity for more than twenty five years, previously as a London-based partner of Warburg Pincus. Louis attended Phillips Academy Andover and Eton College, and he received a BA with Honors from Harvard
University. He serves as a charter trustee of Phillips Academy Andover and was previously a Trustee of The Darden School at the University of Virginia and a member of the Harvard University Task Force on Academic Resources. In London, he is vice-chairman of Impetus-PEF; the UK’s leading venture philanthropy organization. He serves or has served on the Development Board of The Prince’s Trust, the International Development Council of the British Film Institute and is a trustee of The Voices Foundation and The Education Endowment Foundation. He was previously a member of the board of the British Venture Capital Association.
