Tricia Glynn joined Advent in 2016 and is a Managing Partner in Boston. She advises on buyouts and growth equity investments in the consumer sector. Tricia is a member of Advent’s Global Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Committee. She has advised on over 20 investments across the retail, healthcare, business services, real estate, and media sectors during her career, eight while at Advent.
Prior to joining Advent, Tricia worked at Bain Capital Private Equity, where she was a principal in the consumer, retail, and dining sector team. Before Bain Capital, she was an investment professional in the Private Equity Group of Goldman Sachs.
Tricia earned an AB in Biochemical Sciences, cum laude, from Harvard College and an MBA, with high distinction, as a Baker Scholar from Harvard Business School.
How do you identify compelling companies?
Ultimately, it’s the founders and leadership teams we invest alongside who create the magic in a business. Within Advent, we need to be clear about which opportunities truly have the opportunity to achieve scale over the long term. We need to build a reputation that makes these amazing leaders and companies want to work with us, and then we need to help them lean into long-term investment and protect against risk. We live and invest in the real world, so a little luck helps too!
What would you like management teams to say about the experience of working with Advent?
I’d hope they would say that we helped keep the bar high for what the company could accomplish when times were great, and that we were the first people they wanted to call when they hit something tough. I would certainly want them to feel that we did everything we did in a values-based way – that we do the right thing when nobody’s looking – and that we were teammates.
What advice would you give to someone joining Advent, to set them up for success?
Be accountable. You should always be accountable for your results. Over the course of your career, you will have the opportunity to grow, learn, and enhance your scope. But all the while, we owe a level of excellence and rigor to our investors, and to the executives and colleagues whose lives we impact.
“We get to work alongside some incredible companies, at a scale where we can really impact the markets in which we play.”
Tricia Glynn
Managing Partner, Advent International
What aspects of your job continue to drive and inspire you?
The world is always changing. We get to work alongside some incredible companies, at a scale where we can really impact the markets in which we play. We’re always looking at a new industry, a new company, or a new part of the world, and we are able to dig in and learn. I love that part of the job. I’m someone who loves learning by observing and engaging with other people who are excellent at what they do, and in this job, we have a front-row view of the executives we work with and the great things they are able to accomplish. And I’m inspired by my colleagues. A huge piece of why I’ve chosen to be at Advent and build a career here is that I love working with these folks and watching them do what they do.
What would a stranger be surprised to learn about you?
I keep a daily gratitude journal, and have done so for a very long time. Some days I simply write that I’m grateful for my family, my health, and my work. On other days, I may be grateful for coffee, Olaplex No 3, and lululemon Align leggings. But the practice of keeping the journal is itself a feel-good moment, no matter what else the day brings.
