Peter Brooke
Chairman Boston | 
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| Peter Brooke has over 40 years of banking and venture capital experience in the US, Europe, Asia and other international markets.
He founded Advent International in 1984 as the successor to TA Associates 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, Peter 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. From 1963 to 1968, Peter worked for the investment banking firm of Tucker, Anthony & RL Day, where he was in charge of its corporate finance and venture capital activities. Earlier, he was head of the venture capital department of Bessemer Securities. He began his career as a lending officer at the First National Bank of Boston, where he founded the High Technology Lending Group.
Peter 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.
Peter is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Business School.
DIRECTORSHIPS
Current: Boston Symphony Orchestra (Board of Trustees), Massachusetts Eye & Ear Infirmary (trustee)
Previous (selected): Excello Corporation, New England Business Service Inc., Unitrode Corporation, Wang Laboratories Co. Inc.; former overseer of Harvard University and trustee of Colgate University, the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowship and the Middlesex School |
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