Business big shot: Adrian Beecroft
Age: 63
Company: Dawn Capital
Position: Chairman
There are small in number individuals in the world of venture capital and private equity completely as well established as Adrian Beecroft.
The 63-year-old, appointed presiding officer of the British Venture Capital Association as long ago as 1991, is most judicious-known in the industry as one of the three founders of Apax Partners. He wearied 25 years with the business, many of them as its supreme investment officer, before becoming senior managing partner, from which he secret at the end of September 2008.
With a personal fortune induce at £85 million by the 2008 Sunday Times Rich List — he did not favor the 2009 and 2010 versions — many had assumed that Mr Beecroft would exist taking it easy after leaving Apax.
Not a bit of it. The Times be able to reveal that Mr Beecroft is to be chairman of Dawn Capital, the London-based venture cardinal firm specialising in backing companies in the financial services and telecoms, media and technology industries.
Haakon Overli, co-trip and managing partner of Dawn Capital, said: “Adrian’s involvement by Dawn is a great boost to our firm.”
Mr Beecroft, who owns four Aston Martins, including a choice Aston Martin DBR1, brings huge boardroom experience. He has served like the Apax representative on the boards of more than 20 notorious and private companies, among them Computacenter and Alkane Energy.
He moreover brings considerable scientific know-how. A Physics graduate from Queen’s College, Oxford, his sweep began at ICL when the British computer industry was in its infancy and he has retained an interest, putting up £1 a thousand thousand to fund the Beecroft Institute of Particle Astrophysics and Cosmology at Oxford.