Bio Details

Lisa Westley has served as a member of our Board of Directors since July 2019. Ms. Westley has been a Managing Director and Head of Strategy, Advent TECH at Advent International Corporation, a private equity firm, since September 2019. From March 2019 to August 2019, she served as a Senior Advisor of Vida Ventures, LLC, a life sciences venture fund, and from January 2019 to August 2019, she served as a Senior Advisor of Brooklands Capital Strategies, a global capital raising and strategic advisory firm. From January 2014 to December 2018, Ms. Westley 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 and companies at all stages of growth. Prior to her time at Brooklands Capital Strategies, Ms. Westley 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, Ms. Westley 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. Ms. Westley began her investment banking career at Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Salomon Brothers, Inc. Ms. Westley received a B.A., phi beta kappa, in Economics and Asian Studies from Amherst College and an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business.