John Littlechild has been a managing director of HealthCare Ventures since 1992. He has been in the venture capital industry since 1980 when he joined Citicorp Venture Capital in London. He subsequently joined the Advent Group, opening the London office of Advent U.K. and then became the founding general partner of Advent International in Boston. Prior to his career in venture capital, he held marketing and financial management positions with Rand, Xerox and ICI. Mr. Littlechild is a member of the board of fellows of the Council for Harvard Medicine.
He received his Master in Business Administration degree from Manchester Business School.