About the Role
Apex Invest is seeking an experienced and commercially driven Vice President, Institutional Relationships & Capital Formation to lead institutional investor engagement across the Apex Invest capital formation ecosystem. This is a senior, externally facing role responsible for developing and managing relationships with institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, RIAs, private banks, consultants, and other professional allocators.
Responsibilities
- Lead institutional investor engagement across the Apex Invest platform, global events, and capital formation ecosystem.
- Develop and maintain relationships with family offices, pension funds, endowments, foundations, sovereign wealth funds, consultants, funds of funds, RIAs, wealth managers, private banks, OCIOs, and other institutional allocators.
- Expand allocator participation and engagement across the Apex Invest platform and global events.
- Work with allocators to keep their Apex Invest profiles current, identifying mandates, investment interests, and emerging market trends to strengthen Apex Invest's proprietary matching, content, and market intelligence.
- Provide insights to the Apex Invest development team pertaining to allocator experience on the platform and respective feedback, contributing to feature roadmap and platform enhancements.
- Collaborate with the Apex Invest Markets broker-dealer team to support institutional engagement and capital formation activities where applicable and permissible.
- Build strategic relationships with wealth management platforms, RIAs, private banks, consultants, and institutional distribution partners.
- Source allocator participation, speakers, and thought leaders for Apex Invest conferences, webinars, podcasts, advisory councils, and industry forums.
- Drive surveys amongst platform allocators to gauge quarterly insights and portfolio and investment intent shifts.
- Partner with Marketing to develop institutional content, market intelligence, podcasts, webinars, and thought leadership initiatives.
- Represent Apex Invest at industry conferences, investor meetings, and strategic partner events globally.
- Collaborate across the broader Apex ecosystem to identify opportunities supporting Fund Administration, Digital Assets, Tokenization, Custody, and other institutional services.
Requirements
- 10+ years of experience in institutional investor relations, capital introduction, placement, institutional sales, business development, or alternative asset fundraising.
- Established relationships with institutional investors, family offices, wealth managers, RIAs, private banks, consultants, and other professional allocators.
- Strong understanding of private equity, venture capital, private credit, infrastructure, real estate, hedge funds, digital assets, co-investments, secondaries, and alternative investments.
- Experience supporting institutional fundraising, allocator engagement, and due diligence processes.
- Knowledge of broker-dealer capital formation practices and regulatory considerations is highly desirable.
- Strong commercial acumen with excellent relationship management, presentation, and communication skills.
- Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to build new relationships and execute in a fast-growing business environment.
Skills
- Institutional investor relations
- Capital introduction
- Placement
- Institutional sales
- Business development
- Alternative asset fundraising
- Relationship management
- Presentation skills
- Communication skills
- Private markets
- Alternatives
- Broker-dealer capital formation practices
- Regulatory considerations
- Digital Assets
- Tokenization
- Custody
Experience Level
- 10+ years of experience
About the Company
- The Apex Group was established in Bermuda in 2003 and is now one of the world’s largest fund administration and middle office solutions providers.
- Our business is unique in its ability to reach globally, service locally and provide cross-jurisdictional services.
- With our clients at the heart of everything we do, our hard-working team has successfully delivered on an unprecedented growth and transformation journey, and we are now represented by over circa 13,000 employees across 112 offices worldwide.
- Your career with us should reflect your energy and passion.
- That’s why, at Apex Group, we will do more than simply ‘empower’ you. We will work to supercharge your unique skills and experience.
- Take the lead and we’ll give you the support you need to be at the top of your game.
- And we offer you the freedom to be a positive disrupter and turn big ideas into bold, industry-changing realities.
- For our business, for clients, and for you
