Alex Schneider is the cofounder of Clover Capital Partners, an investor in food manufacturing businesses, and Clover Vitality Fund, which makes growth equity investments in consumer products. He previously spent more than a decade in lower middle market private equity, most recently with Keystone Capital.

Since 2015, Schneider has served as an adjunct lecturer of entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management, where he created and teaches the ETA course and co-leads the Zell Fellows ETA track. He is also an active investor in search funds and startups and mentors students, CEOs, and investors across the ETA community. Schneider holds dual undergraduate degrees in mathematical methods in the social sciences and sociology from Northwestern University and an MBA from Kellogg.