Rupert Harrington

Managing Director

Rupert has been involved in private equity since 1987. He has been
a member of the Advent team for all of this time, apart from 1996-98,
when he was an Investment Director with National Australia Investment
Capital, a subsidiary of NAB. Rupert has experience in the full range
of private equity investment activities in Australia, including fund raising
and portfolio development as well as the management and sale of
investments. He has been a director on the boards of over 20 of Advent’s
investees’ companies; including manufacturing, services and technology-
based businesses. These embrace the full range of investment
opportunities including expansion, MBO/MBI and generational change.

Prior to joining Advent, Rupert had 11 years of general management
experience in the UK and Australia, with considerable emphasis on
rationalising and reorganising manufacturing businesses in the textile
and clothing industry. Rupert holds a Bachelor of Technology degree and
a Masters of Business Management from Bradford University along with a
Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance from Manchester University.