Lars Kroijer graduated Magna cum Laude from Harvard University with a degree in economics and received a MBA from Harvard Business School.

Lars is the author of Money Mavericks – Confessions of a Hedge Fund Manager (second edition, 2012, FT Publishing). He is the founder and managing director of Alliedcrowds.com – the leading directory and aggregator of alternative capital into the world’s 132 lower- and middle-income countries. He currently serves on the advisory board of alternative investment funds in London, New York and Hong Kong. Lars has frequently appeared as a finance expert on a broad range of media, including the BBC, CNN, CNBC, Bloomberg, the New York Times and Forbes magazine.

Lars was the CIO of Holte Capital Ltd, a London-based, market-neutral, special situations hedge fund which he founded in 2002 before returning to external capital in the spring of 2008. Prior to establishing Holte Capital, he served in the London office of HBK Investments focusing on special situations investing. In addition, he previously worked at SC Fundamental, a value-focused hedge fund based in New York, and the investment banking division of Lazard Frères in New York. While at graduate school, he held internships with the private equity firm Permira Advisors (then Schroder Ventures) and management consulting firm McKinsey & Co.

A Danish national, Lars Kroijer lives in London and is married with twin daughters.