Beau Dixon

Beau Dixon joined Advent in 2024 and is a Partner / Managing Director and Head of Australia / New Zealand, leading our Sydney office. He advises on investments in the business & financial services (BFS) and healthcare sectors. Beau has advised on 14 investments during his career across the BFS, consumer, healthcare, industrial, and technology sectors.

Prior to joining Advent, Beau was a Managing Partner and member of the investment committee at Anchorage Capital Partners.

Beau received a Bachelor of Business from the University of Technology, Sydney. He also completed the General Management Program, Executive Development Program, and Global Strategic Leadership Program at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania.

How has living in your region impacted your perspective on investing?

The set of opportunities in Australia and New Zealand directly align with Advent’s five key sectors – business and financial services, consumer, healthcare, industrial, and technology – and Asia Pacific as a whole represents significant growth opportunities across these sectors. Having a permanent presence on the ground here provides a number of additional benefits to Advent, including increased access to opportunities for platform investments and bolt-on acquisitions for the global Advent portfolio. Key to all this are the strong relationships we have built, based on trust developed over time, transaction volume, and our continued presence in the country.

How do you partner with management teams?

At a portfolio company level, our partnership with management teams is critical to the long-term, sustainable growth of our investments. We’re looking for direct alignment with them, which we can achieve through our board relationships with Advent representatives, and with the independent directors and chairs that we appoint to those boards. Collaboration and a trusted partnership with management teams equip us to drive positive outcomes, achieve growth, and manage organizational change. We don’t operate in the businesses, rather we provide the necessary support, guidance, and resources required by leveraging our toolkit, experience, and relationships.

How do you challenge yourself and others to continuously improve?

There are always opportunities to continuously improve. When joining Advent, one of the core attractions to me was the quality of people and culture of transparency. My philosophy is that while good news should be celebrated at the appropriate time, bad news should travel at the speed of light. Every challenge we encounter is an opportunity. It brings with it a chance to learn, enhance what we do, and grow. Collaboration is a core part of the Advent culture: let’s get the right human capital around the situation, each and every time, with a solutions mindset, and seek to maintain positive momentum.

What about your job inspires and drives you?

I think we are very fortunate to be in a position where we are affecting positive change in businesses and supporting our people and management teams to grow and be successful. It’s incredible to be working across such a broad set of complex topics, engaging with some of the greatest and most sophisticated minds – including forward-thinking leaders seeking different avenues for growth, and drawing on a deep skill set of financial, commercial, and business-building acumen. No two days are the same at Advent. Everyone is looking to grow by doing better, being better, and positively contributing to the business.

If you weren’t in this profession, what would you be doing?

I get great satisfaction and enjoyment at work with the breadth of subject matter we cover and ability to support growth and change – I couldn’t think of doing anything else. This is what I’ve wanted to do since I was at school, and don’t have any plans to stop any time soon!