Charles Alexander

Charles Edward Alexander is the Finance Bursar of Merton College, one of the University of Oxford's constituent colleges, where he is responsible for the overall administration of the College's finances and its endowment. As Finance Bursar he sits among the College's senior officers and oversees financial strategy, reporting, and the management of the endowment's investment portfolio, from which the Governing Body draws a total-return spend (Merton's stated policy is to extract 3.5% of the smoothed five-year average value of relevant investments each year).

Before moving into college administration, Alexander built a long career in international banking. Public profiles list prior roles at J.P. Morgan, Lehman Brothers, Standard Chartered Bank, and Bank of America — a background spanning several of the major global investment and commercial banks. This capital-markets experience is the foundation for his current endowment-management responsibilities.

He was educated at Harvard Business School, where he took a Master of Business Administration (MBA), studying there around 1978–1980.

Alexander also appears as an officer of Merton College No. 1 Limited, a college-related corporate vehicle registered at Companies House, consistent with his role administering the College's financial affairs.

• Acts as an institutional endowment steward, not a personal angel — his "investing" is the allocation and oversight of Merton College's long-term endowment assets rather than writing personal seed cheques into startups.
• Endowment spending discipline: Merton's Governing Body policy is a total-return draw of ~3.5% of the endowment, calculated on the average of the last five years' year-end values to smooth withdrawals — a conservative, long-horizon approach typical of Oxbridge college endowments.
• No publicly stated personal seed-stage thesis, check size, sector focus, or target-company profile could be verified. Any founder-facing framing of Charles Alexander as a "Seed Round angel investor" should be treated with caution pending direct confirmation.