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Founder and Former CEO of Advent International and TA Associates
Mr. Brooke has over 40 years of banking and venture capital experience in the US, Europe, Asia and other international markets.

He founded also Advent International in 1984 in the management of international private equity investment programs. In addition to serving as CEO of Advent for 11 years, he helped establish numerous affiliated venture capital and private equity firms in Europe, Asia, Latin America and Israel.

Prior to forming Advent, Mr. Brooke was the managing partner of TA Associates, a venture capital firm he founded in 1968. Today TA is one of the largest private equity firms in the US.

Mr. Brooke is a member of the Private Equity Hall of Fame and recipient of the National Venture Capital Association’s Lifetime Achievement in Venture Capital Award and Harvard Business School’s Alumni Achievement Award. He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Science. The Boston Business Journal named him one of Greater Boston’s 100 most influential business people of the 20th century. Mr. Brooke is a graduate of Harvard College and Harvard Business School.