Valerie A. Cooper is a Director for Asia Alternatives. Ms. Cooper is on the Firm's Investment Committee.

Prior to joining Asia Alternatives, Ms. Cooper was a Private Equity Portfolio Manager for C.M. Capital Corporation ("CMC"), the investment arm of the Cha Group. Since 2001, Ms. Cooper managed a private equity portfolio established in 1980, comprising over 85 private equity and venture capital funds. In 2005, Ms. Cooper served on the Board of Directors for the Institutional Limited Partners Association (ILPA).

Prior to her involvement with CMC, Ms. Cooper was a Manager at Deloitte & Touche in the Corporate Finance Department. Her mandate was serving private equity clients in the San Francisco Bay area and publishing a quarterly technology publication titled "The Blue Paper." Prior to Deloitte, Ms. Cooper spent three years at Household Finance Corporation, the consumer finance arm of Fortune 500 Household International. While living in Shanghai, China, in 1995 and 1996, Ms. Cooper consulted for both Tudor Global Trading, the direct investment arm of NY-based Tudor Investment, and Prudential Securities, as a Market Analyst.

Ms. Cooper received an M.B.A. in Finance and International Business from DePaul University and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from Rockford College. She is conversant in Mandarin Chinese.