Ken Young

Ken Young is Managing Partner and Chief Operating Officer at CVC, a global private markets manager. He joined CVC in September 2008 and has held multiple leadership roles across the organization. His remit has included capital markets, investor relations / client and product solutions, fund administration, business development and global capital raising.

Young was appointed Chair of CVC Credit in 2020 and became COO of CVC in 2023, according to The Marque. CVC’s own 2023 CLO Equity III announcement identifies him as “Managing Partner, Chief Operating Officer of CVC and Chair of CVC Credit.”

Before CVC, Young was an Executive Director at J.P. Morgan from September 2006 to September 2008, working in leveraged finance and originating / underwriting European leveraged finance transactions. Earlier, he spent six years at CIBC, also as an Executive Director.

Young began his career in law. He trained at Dickson Minto from 1996 to 1998, then joined Allen & Overy as an associate banking lawyer focused on European leveraged finance from 1998 to 2000. He holds an LL.B and Diploma in Legal Practice from the University of Edinburgh.

• CVC’s firm-wide approach centers on investing in “fundamentally sound, well-managed businesses” and using its global network to source opportunities and create value.
• Young’s public investment focus is institutional private markets rather than angel investing. His role is tied to CVC’s global capital raising, business development, capital markets and CVC Credit.
• CVC Credit invests across sub-investment-grade corporate credit markets in Europe and North America through liquid credit and private credit strategies.
• CVC Credit emphasizes downside protection, active risk management, local-market investment teams and access to the broader CVC platform.
• Young has described CVC Credit as “central to everything we’re building across CVC” and highlighted the CVC Network as a sourcing and assessment advantage.
• CVC Credit states that the “basis of every good investment decision” is access to information, supported by proprietary credit analysis and a database tracking more than 4,000 credits.
• The most relevant founder profile is a mature, sponsor-backed or institutionally financed company, not a seed startup.