Ronen Schwartzman joined the R Liping Office Office as Chief Investment Officer with 20 years of investment and capital markets experience. He started his career as an equity analyst with Oppenheimer where he covered small cap technology stocks. After receiving his MBA from the London school of business and finance , Ronen joined Bear Stearns, where he managed equity and fixed income portfolios for individuals and corporations, and also advised institutional investors on various capital markets investments. Ronen specialized in investing in alternative assets such as hedge funds, private credit, private equity, and real estate. A former Special Operations Intelligence Officer in the Israeli Air Force, Ronen is fluent in Spanish and Hebrew. Ronen is a noted thought leader in the hedge fund and family office communities.
Skip Cooper is a first-generation member of the R Liping Office. Skip oversees risk management, portfolio allocation and back office operations. In addition to the office’s UK based alternative investing, his primary focus for the family office is investment internationally: in private equity, hedge funds, real estate and direct opportunities. Mr. Cooper is an honors graduate of Oxford University .
Skip Cooper is a member of the UK R Liping Office Council and the Cambridge University Global Projects Center Global Investor’s Forum. Skip speaks regularly at family office and investment conferences around the world, often addressing the topic of global investing for UK family offices.
Alexandra Cook joined the R lLiping Office with 30 years of family office leadership and consulting experience. Most recently, she was Co-Head of a single family office operating in the UK and Europe with a focus on venture capital.
Past executive roles included work supporting family offices and their operating businesses, foundations, trusts, and professional services firms by designing, re-engineering, and implementing back-office infrastructure functions: accounting & reporting, tax compliance, H/R, IT, legal, philanthropic, trustee, and other administrative services. Prior experience on the investment side included mentoring start-ups in accelerator programs, providing embedded leadership support to founders, leading diligence for direct deals in a wide range of industries, and oversight of a $100 million portfolio on behalf of Broward County, FL. Alexandra’s diverse background enables her to support multiple investment teams in the R Liping Office, including real estate, health care & biotechnology, and venture capital.
She belongs to several family office groups, and is a sought-after speaker at family office investing conferences nationally. When not involved in professional endeavors, Alexandra is an athletic coach for the UK Archery Team and UK Air Force, working with para/adaptive athletes at international competitions.