Alex Roepers is the CIO of Atlantic Investment Management, a global equity value-investing firm he founded in 1988. Atlantic applies a differentiated constructive shareholder activist approach to unlock incremental value in high-quality, undervalued companies in the consumer, industrials and business services sectors. Atlantic's investment team has successfully influenced change at many leading companies over the past 30 years in the US, Europe and Japan. Alex began his career in operations and corporate development at multi-billion-dollar conglomerates Thyssen-Bornemisza Group (1984-88) and Dover Corporation (1980-82). He has served on the Board of Dean's Advisors at Harvard Business School since 2010; as U.S. Chair of the Compagnie Fonds Dutch Maritime Museum since 2007; on Memorial Sloan Kettering's Special Projects Committee since 1997; and as Chairman of his charitable foundation since 2002. Alex has a BBA from Nijenrode University, The Netherlands School of Business (1980) and an MBA from Harvard Business School (1984).