Join us for a breakfast roundtable, Building Market Leaders, an Introduction to Private Equity Investing in Australia and New Zealand with Robert Radcliffe-Smith and Mark Jago of Advent Partners
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August 28th 7:45am to 9:00am
Marriott East, 26300 Harvard Road, Warrensville Heights
Breakfast will open at 7:45am and the presentation will start promptly at 8am.
Breakfast brought to you by Advent Partners
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The leadership team of Advent Partners are excited to introduce the growing opportunity for investing in the Australian/New Zealand market. Their experience within this exciting entry point for south east Asia investing includes over two decades of experience buying, managing and exiting dozens of lower middle market companies. In this presentation you will learn from them how they view the market in Australia/New Zealand, the opportunities that are present there, how the landscape has evolved over the past 15+ years, and opportunities for current investment in the region.
Robert Radcliffe-Smith, Managing Partner
In 1989, I joined KPMG. Over eight years I had the good fortune of working in three divisions: corporate services, restructuring, and corporate finance. It was the latter division where I spent four years doing corporate advisory, valuations, transaction services, privatisations, and M&A all relevant skills for Private Equity. My last assignment at KPMG was to spend six months assisting NAB to establish a specialist Private Equity division. I ended up remaining with NAB doing Private Equity until joining Advent in 2002.
At Advent, I have been a director of Tesa, UGM, Trivantage, SCADAgroup (the winner of the 2010 AVCAL best mid-market buyout award), Gourmet Garden, Integral Diagnostics and Frosty Boy. Currently, I am a director of Compass, Medtech, ICT and PEHA.
I hold a Bachelor of Commerce from Deakin University, and am an Associate of the Institute of Chartered Accountants, and a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
On the weekends, I enjoy spending time with my family, sampling good red wine with my friends, watching my boys play football (Aussie Rules!), fishing and riding dirt bikes.
Mark Jago, Partner
I spent my early career working in several roles for the global FMCG company Unilever. I followed this with 6 years at Bain & Co. with my prime focus on growth strategy and performance improvement in Australia, South Korea and South Africa. In my 12 years of private equity experience I have worked alongside some outstanding businesses and executives.
Some of the businesses include GenesisCare(AVCAL awarded best investment of the last 25 years), Gourmet Garden, Junior Adventures Group, Integral Diagnostic, Homy Ped, Sigma Coachair Group, Valuation Exchange (ValEx), Neller and Wellness & Lifestyles. I hold a First Class Honours degree in Engineering/Commerce from Monash University.
I have a large family and live in a busy household that shuttles kids between events. I enjoy running, a glass of wine, and believe it is critical to have your next holiday planned.