Alexander Ooms

Alexander Ooms is Managing Partner at ClearCreek Partners, a financial advisory firm that partners with entrepreneurs and CEOs of private companies to help them raise capital or pursue strategic transactions.

Mr. Ooms' experience includes several years of management consulting with the Corporate Strategy Group at PriceWaterhouse Coopers, where he advised a wide range of individual and corporate clients in the United States, Europe and Asia. Mr. Ooms has held operating positions with Universal Music Group and Massive Media (a technology start-up), and is a former vice-president of Finance at a $1 billion public company. He holds FINRA Series 7, 63, and 79 licenses, an MBA in Finance and Management Strategy from the Kellogg Graduate School at Northwestern University, an MA in English Literature from Georgetown University, and a BA in Philosophy from Vassar College.

Highly active in education reform, Mr. Ooms was the founding Chair and is a current member of the Board of Trustees for STRIVE Preparatory Schools (formerly West Denver Prep) and is a Senior Fellow at the Donnell-Kay Foundation. Alex also serves on the boards of the Colorado Charter Schools Institute, Colorado Succeeds, the Colorado chapter of Stand for Children, and is a regular contributor to news site EdNews Colorado. He lives in Denver, CO with his wife and three children.