Alex Bezugly

Alex Bezugly is an Investment Partner and the Chief Financial Officer of Oakfield Capital Partners, a UK private equity firm founded in 2008 that backs small and medium-sized British businesses with capital and hands-on operational support. He brings roughly two decades of private equity and venture capital experience to the firm, where the partners invest their own capital alongside their funds in every deal.

Before Oakfield, Bezugly was CEO of Alfa Capital Partners, a private equity firm that managed around $300 million of investments across Eastern Europe. Earlier, he served as a Director of private equity for Lord Jacob Rothschild's interests at First Arrow and RIT Capital Partners. His earlier career included growth-capital and private-equity work at Lehman Brothers, and he began his career at the Creditanstalt Investment Bank in New York.

Academically, Bezugly received a BA in Economics with distinction from Moscow State University and was a Soros Foundation scholar at the London School of Economics (LSE).

At Oakfield he works alongside Managing Partners Roy Merritt and Michael Patton, with the firm positioning itself as a small team of "decision makers who invest our own capital in every deal" and who take an actively-owned, operationally-led approach to their portfolio companies.

• Invests in established, UK-based small and medium-sized businesses with significant growth potential, rather than early-stage startups — Oakfield's stated mission is "we grow businesses."
• Provides both capital and operational/strategic expertise, partnering closely with management teams to drive transformational change in strategy and operations.
• Comfortable with special situations and complex deals — e.g., acquiring "orphaned" or mothballed operating assets and rebuilding them into successful companies.
• Sector-agnostic but with demonstrated exposure to healthcare services, technology/telecoms, hospitality/beverages, and professional/business services.
• Targets long-term partnerships (engagements of 5+ years are referenced in client testimonials) aimed at delivering significant capital gains on exit.
• The partners invest their own capital in every deal, signalling high conviction and alignment with co-investors.