Bio

Lisa Westley joined Advent in 2019. Prior to Advent, Lisa was a Partner and Chief Operating Officer of Brooklands Capital Strategies, a spin-out of TPG Capital that provides global fundraising and strategic advisory services to alternative asset managers. Lisa also spent nine years at TPG Capital, initially as the Chief Operating Officer of TPG’s Asia-Pacific private equity business and subsequently as the Global Head of Talent Management. Before TPG, Lisa spent 15 years as an investment banker, having been a Founding Partner, Co-Head of the Consumer Group and Head of the IT Services / Business Services Group at Thomas Weisel Partners and a Senior Managing Director at Montgomery Securities. Lisa began her investment banking career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Salomon Brothers, Inc. Lisa received a BA, phi beta kappa, in Economics and Asian Studies from Amherst College and an MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.