Louis Elson

Louis co-founded Palamon Capital Partners in 1999 and is the Managing Partner.

Louis has been active in European private equity since 1990 and was formerly a partner at Warburg Pincus in London. He has also been an investment banker with Goldman Sachs & Co and an operating executive in publishing with Time Inc.

Louis has extensive involvement in education and social service organisations, including Board members of Youth Endowment Fund, Social and Sustainable Capital LLP and is a Trustee of the St George’s House Trust. He has held long-term appointments on the Boards of Impetus Private Equity Foundation, Trustee of the Education Endowment Fund, Prince’s Trust, Advisory Council of the British Film Institute and in the US a Charter Trustee of the Phillips Academy Andover and Trustee Emeriti of the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia.

Louis earned his BA with Honours from Harvard University and his MBA with Honours from The Darden Business School at the University of Virginia.