Andrew Cooper

Andrew Cooper serves as a Lead Director at Prospect Capital. He also serves as Co-Chief Executive Officer and Managing Partner, Investments and Finance at Unison Energy. He has more than thirty years of experience in venture management, investment banking, and capital markets. As an entrepreneurially minded executive, Andy has started, grown, managed and sold multiple companies. As Founder, Co-CEO of Unison Site Management which over the past twelve-years has built and sold $1 billion+ portfolio of cellular site easements to investors such as Goldman Sachs, Global Tower Systems and American Tower. As a Founder, CFO, EVP Business Development, Avesta Technologies, an enterprise, information and technology management software company, purchased by Visual Networks in 2000. Andy is active on multiple boards, including Prospect Capital Corporation (NASDAQ "PSEC"). Prior to his current ventures, Andy served as Managing Director with The Carlyle Group, focused on North American venture investments. He also spent fourteen years with Morgan Stanley & Company, most recently as a principal of Morgan Stanley Venture Partners, focusing on late-stage venture investments, consolidations and buy-outs. Cooper was the lead partner and a director of CSG Systems ("CSGS"), Protection One Alarm ("ALRM"), LionBridge Technologies ("LIOX"), and Weblink Wireless ("WLNKA"), among others. Before joining the venture group at Morgan Stanley, he worked in the company's Debt Capital Markets and Mergers & Acquisitions divisions in New York and Tokyo. He has a B.A. from Duke University.