John Singer

John Singer joined Advent International in 1993. He was a founding member of Advent’s Executive Committee and was latterly Chairman, Europe until December 2011. John has more than 27 years of private equity experience and has served as Chairman of the European Venture Capital Association. Prior to Advent, John was Managing Director of Granville Europe AG, a subsidiary of investment bank Granville Holdings. Before that, he was a Group Director of Finance and Administration at Central & Sherwood PLC and ran several quoted turnaround businesses. He also worked as a senior consultant at McKinsey & Co, and spent five years in corporate finance.