Bio

Simon Powell joined Advent in 2006 and is the Compliance Officer and Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO) for Advent International plc. Prior to joining Advent, Simon spent seven years as a management consultant at Impact Plus, building and leading the firm's Regulatory Practice and advising senior management teams at blue chip financial services groups on a broad range of risk management and regulatory issues, delivering change programmes into these organisations. Prior to his consulting career and after graduating from Kingston University Business School, Simon qualified as an HR professional with the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development and held a number of management positions at Legal & General, one of the UK's leading Life & Pensions businesses. Simon has been a member of the British Venture Capital Association's (BVCA) Regulatory Committee since 2008 and sits on the Invest Europe Professional Standards Committee and Responsible Investment Roundtable.