Fred Coulson Biography

Fred Coulson is the Founder and Managing Partner of Kansas City-based Five Elms Capital a venture capital and growth-oriented private equity firm that invests in high growth services and technology businesses.

Prior to founding Five Elms Fred was a senior investment professional with TH Lee Putnam Ventures a $1.1billion growth-oriented private equity firm. At TH Lee Putnam he invested in and actively managed a variety of financial services and technology-enabled services businesses.

Prior to TH Lee Putnam Fred was as an investment banker with Morgan Stanley in its New York headquarters where he helped media internet and cable companies access the public equity and high yield markets and later advised large corporates as a generalist in the firm’s mergers & acquisitions department.

He holds a B.S. in Business Administration from the University of Kansas where he currently serves on the Board of Advisors for the School of Business and the Finance Department as well as the Advancement Board for the University of Kansas Hospital and Medical Center.

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